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Air New Zealand to place new Airbus jet order
May 31 (Reuters) - Air New Zealand is close to placing an order for around a dozen A320-family aircraft worth well over $1 billion at list prices to expand its fleet of mainly Airbus medium-haul jets, industry sources said on Saturday.
The deal, which could be announced on the sidelines of a global airlines meeting in Doha on Sunday, is the latest step in the airline's fleet renewal programme that will also see it soon introduce the latest version of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. Airbus has called a news conference to announce an airplane order on Sunday, but declined to give further details. Air New Zealand did not immediately respond to a request for comment. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0OH03T20140531 These will presumably replace the old international ones with regos ZK-OJA to OJN and will have sharklets like the new domestic fleet and hopefully they go for the A320neo with greater range than the standard version they could use them on Christchurch to Perth for instance. Air NZ will soon have a very young jet fleet, good on them. |
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A321NEO
Yes Air New Zealand has confimed in NZ Herald this morning a deal has been done for A321 Neo stretch version of the A320 with 22 extra seats.
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The CGI of the A321 is one spunky looking aircraft!
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So its great NZ will have a very modern fleet soon.
The range of the 320 NEO is 6900 km from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus...Specifications So it could easily fly the Route Perth to Christchurch which is 5085 km with this sort of aircraft in NZ's fleet it could replace a lot of the 767 flights even AKL-PPT easily at 4098 km and could open up more routes. AKL to DPS is 6731 km so getting a bit tight. |
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