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Air NZ makes schedule changes due to maintenance reqirements
7 December 2017
Air New Zealand makes schedule
changes due to maintenance requirements
Air New
Zealand advises that it will be retiming some international
flights and making a limited number of cancellations over
coming weeks as a result of two recent events involving the
Rolls-Royce engines on its Boeing 787-9 aircraft.
Rolls-Royce has advised that some of the Trent 1000 engines in the airline’s Boeing 787-9 fleet require maintenance sooner than previously indicated.
Rolls-Royce does not have any replacement engines available while this maintenance work is undertaken which means some schedule changes are unavoidable.
In addition to these changes, Air New Zealand is focused on securing replacement aircraft capacity.
Customers affected by these changes will be proactively contacted with new travel information. In addition to this, the latest available information on any schedule changes will be published in the Travel Alerts section of the Air New Zealand website. Customers are encouraged to check this first before calling the airline’s contact centre.
Schedule changes currently planned between Thursday 7 December and Sunday 10 December are as follows (all dates given in local time):
Thursday 7 December:
| Flight | Route | Status | |||
| NZ175 | Auckland – Perth | Cancelled | |||
| NZ178 | Perth – Auckland | Cancelled | |||
| NZ31 | Buenos Aires – Auckland | Delayed 8 hours, 55 minutes | |||
| NZ282 | Auckland – Singapore | Delayed 35 minutes | |||
| NZ289 | Auckland – Shanghai | Delayed 5 hours, 40
minutes (now departing Friday AM) |
Friday 8
December:
| Flight | Route | Status |
| NZ97 | Auckland – Osaka | Cancelled |
| NZ98 | Osaka – Auckland | Cancelled |
| NZ175 | Auckland – Perth | Delayed 3 hours, 30 minutes |
| NZ162 | Perth - Christchurch | Delayed 7 hours, 35 minutes |
| NZ161 | Christchurch – Perth | Delayed 4 hours, 50 minutes |
| NZ289 | Auckland – Shanghai | Delayed 7 hours, 30 minutes |
| NZ288 | Shanghai – Auckland | Delayed 1 hour, 45 minutes |
| NZ61 | Auckland – Rarotonga – Sydney | Delayed 1 hour, 30 minutes |
Saturday 9 December:
| Flight | Route | Status |
| NZ30 | Auckland – Buenos Aires | Delayed 5 hours, 35 minutes |
| NZ289 | Auckland – Shanghai | Delayed 7 hours, 30 minutes |
| NZ288 | Shanghai – Auckland | Delayed 3 hours |
| NZ28 | Auckland – Houston | Cancelled |
| NZ29 | Houston – Auckland | Cancelled |
Sunday 10 December:
| Flight | Route | Status |
| NZ289 | Auckland – Shanghai | Delayed 1 hour, 16 minutes |
The above schedule changes will also be published to the Travel Alerts section of the Air New Zealand website shortly.
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