New Zealand flight numbers

[matthew mcdonald]

Does anybody know what the destinations are to the new NZ flight numbers. NZ 0078 popped up on Acars and is operated by the 763 with winglets and I was just wondering what the flight was.

Thanks in advance.

[Grahame Hutchison]

Matthew, the route is Auckland - Sydney.

ACARS mode: 2 Aircraft reg: .ZK-NCG
Message label: H1 Block id: 5 Msg. no: D62A
Flight id: NZ0078
Message content:-
#1FBFCP
0747 24AUG09 AKL SYD M022 M287 24996 738 130894 09
R 0232
NO 120 129 011 002 000 000 000 000
PC 053 045 001 000 000 000 000 000
-------------------------------------[24/08/2009 17:47]

[Mike W]

Maybe this was an extra flight due to the Bledisloe Cup Rugby Union Test in Sydney on Saturday night. There would have been a lot of happy Kiwis on trans Tasman flights over and around the weekend.

[Lee M]

The flight ID in NZ 767's ACARS messages are not the actual flight numbers. They count up, ie. the next flight operated by NCG will have flight ID 79 etc. Not sure why this is.

The flight would have been either NZ101 or NZ105

[Ian Garton]

Is it the number of flights since last D check?

[Gerard M]

Is it usual for ANZ to send a 744 on an Auckland - Brisbane and return flight? Or is this a special charter of a one off flight?

Currently ZK-SUI is operating ANZ136 back to Auckland.

From www.balus.info (http://www.balus.info)


30-Aug-09 10:29http://balus.info/operator/ANZ.jpgC810A7ZK-SUIB 744 ARR ANZ135 Auckland Brisbane
30-Aug-09 12:48http://balus.info/operator/ANZ.jpgC810A7ZK-SUI B744 ANZ136 Brisbane Auckland

[David Ramsay]

If it's a 744 it will be NZ135/NZ136.

This week those flights show as

Sunday 744
Monday 772
Tuesday 763
Wednesday 772
Thursday 772
Friday 772
Saturday 744