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:
FlightRouteStatusNZ175Auckland – PerthCancelledNZ178Perth – AucklandCancelledNZ31Buenos Aires – AucklandDelayed 8 hours, 55 minutesNZ282Auckland – SingaporeDelayed 35 minutesNZ289Auckland – ShanghaiDelayed 5 hours, 40 minutes
(now departing Friday AM)
Friday 8 December:
FlightRouteStatusNZ97Auckland – OsakaCancelledNZ98Osaka – AucklandCancelledNZ175Auckland – PerthDelayed 3 hours, 30 minutesNZ162Perth - ChristchurchDelayed 7 hours, 35 minutesNZ161Christchurch – PerthDelayed 4 hours, 50 minutesNZ289Auckland – ShanghaiDelayed 7 hours, 30 minutesNZ288Shanghai – AucklandDelayed 1 hour, 45 minutesNZ61Auckland – Rarotonga – SydneyDelayed 1 hour, 30 minutes
Saturday 9 December:
FlightRouteStatusNZ30Auckland – Buenos AiresDelayed 5 hours, 35 minutesNZ289Auckland – ShanghaiDelayed 7 hours, 30 minutesNZ288Shanghai – AucklandDelayed 3 hoursNZ28Auckland – HoustonCancelledNZ29Houston – AucklandCancelled
Sunday 10 December:
FlightRouteStatusNZ289Auckland – ShanghaiDelayed 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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