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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.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Person who flew from Auckland taken to Queenstown hospital
1 Mar, 2021 04:28 AM
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she knows many New Zealanders were upset, frustrated and angry about the Covid rulebreakers which plunged Auckland into lockdown.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she knows many New Zealanders were upset, frustrated and angry about the Covid rulebreakers which plunged Auckland into lockdown.
NZ Herald
A passenger who flew from Auckland to Queenstown earlier today was taken straight from the plane into hospital in an ambulance, with mild flu-like symptoms .
The person flew on Air New Zealand flight NZ611 early this morning, alongside what Queenstown Airport corporate and community affairs general manager Sara Irvine described as a relatively small number of passengers on board , due to alert level 3 restrictions in Auckland.