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NAC inaugurated its Christchurch-Hokitika Friendship service on 20 December 1968. Fokker Friendship ZK-BXI flew the first flight. By 1974 16,945 people were flying through Hokitika each year and from 14 September 1974 NAC introduced Saturday flights from Hokitika to Christchurch. This was the first time Hokitika had a daily air service. [3]
Air New Zealand provides two flights a day to Christchurch. The Hokitika Airport is adjacent to the town, immediately to the north-east in the suburb of Seaview. Hokitika's Southside airfield was the base of Air Travel , New Zealand's first airline.
The NAC network started with the following destinations: Kaitaia, Kaikohe, Whangārei, Auckland, Tauranga, Gisborne, Napier, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Wellington, Blenheim, Nelson, Christchurch, Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, Whataroa, Waiho (Franz Josef), Haast, Dunedin and Invercargill previously served by the same aircraft and personnel under the pre-nationalisation names Union ...
Christchurch and Auckland are the only airports in New Zealand that regularly handle Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 aircraft. [9] The airport is curfew free, operating 24 hours a day. The prevailing wind in Christchurch is from the north-east and to a lesser extent from the south-west, but the city is also affected by Canterbury's nor'wester foehn ...
The first HS748 to arrive in NZ was ZK-CWJ. Its first flight was from Christchurch to Timaru and onto Oamaru on 25 October 1968. [6] After a long evaluation study, the first of the new ATR 72-200s arrived in October 1995 as the chosen replacement of the HS 748s. They in turn were updated to the ATR 72-500 type in 2000. [1]
Christchurch: Christchurch Airport: Seasonal [33] Pakistan: Karachi: Jinnah International Airport: Terminated [34] Philippines: Cebu: Mactan–Cebu International Airport: Passenger [1] Manila: Ninoy Aquino International Airport: Passenger [1] Qatar: Doha: Hamad International Airport: Terminated [35] Russia: Moscow: Moscow Domodedovo Airport ...
Hokitika: 11,870: 9,430: 0.79: ... An increase in direct international flights to Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown has boosted the number of overseas tourists.
The airport is located about 3 km north from the township of Twizel and is 284 km from Christchurch. The airport contains a fully automated Met Service weather station, thirteen hangars, and fuel supplies. Resident operators offer charter and scenic flights from the aerodrome.