Air New Zealand reschedules nearly 2000 international flights for 2023
Air New Zealand has changed the flight times for almost 2000 overseas flights next year, which could affect hundreds of families’ holiday plans. About 90% of the flights have been moved within 60 minutes of their original flight times or have changed aircraft. But the remaining 10% of flights won’t be able to leave on the day they originally booked, which could leave people scrambling to change connecting flights or accommodation. These travellers have been offered a flight on either side of the day they originally booked, Air New Zealand sales officer Leanne Geraghty said. Geraghty said the changes would affect 1900 flights across eight months. “As we did in August this year, we’ve made some changes to our long haul schedule between the end of March and October to build flex and certainty into our network.” By late May in 2023, the company would have all seven of its 777 planes flying again, Geraghty said. That would help “further ease the capacity constraints we are seeing”. In 2020, the airline sent four of its largest planes – the 777-300ER – to a storage facility in California in the United States. It was part of a wider grounding of its 777 fleet. The first of those planes arrived back in New Zealand in August. Seven hundred more staff would also be joining the company by the end of February, Geraghty said.<br/>
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Air New Zealand reschedules nearly 2000 international flights for 2023
Air New Zealand has changed the flight times for almost 2000 overseas flights next year, which could affect hundreds of families’ holiday plans. About 90% of the flights have been moved within 60 minutes of their original flight times or have changed aircraft. But the remaining 10% of flights won’t be able to leave on the day they originally booked, which could leave people scrambling to change connecting flights or accommodation. These travellers have been offered a flight on either side of the day they originally booked, Air New Zealand sales officer Leanne Geraghty said. Geraghty said the changes would affect 1900 flights across eight months. “As we did in August this year, we’ve made some changes to our long haul schedule between the end of March and October to build flex and certainty into our network.” By late May in 2023, the company would have all seven of its 777 planes flying again, Geraghty said. That would help “further ease the capacity constraints we are seeing”. In 2020, the airline sent four of its largest planes – the 777-300ER – to a storage facility in California in the United States. It was part of a wider grounding of its 777 fleet. The first of those planes arrived back in New Zealand in August. Seven hundred more staff would also be joining the company by the end of February, Geraghty said.<br/>
