Covid-19 coronavirus: First commercial flight to land in Queenstown in 387 days
18 Apr, 2021 08:18 PM
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Otago Daily Times
Scheduled international passenger flights to the southern South Island resume today with a single flight from Sydney to Queenstown.
Qantas QF121 is scheduled to land at Queenstown Airport at 2.30pm, 387 days since the last commercial passenger flight landed in the resort.
That flight had only a single passenger, but the Airbus A320 arriving today is expected to be carrying more than 100 people.
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The aircraft will take off for Sydney an hour later.
With quarantine-free travel between New Zealand and Australia able to start at 11.59pm yesterday, today's flight is a milestone in the southern region's recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.