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New Zealand motoring laws finally changed

35 years ago, New Zealand introduced a series of road rules which have, since their introduction, confounded any tourist visiting the country.

New Zealand is the only country which requires cars turning an intersection to make a wider arc to give way to other traffic. This traffic rule seems to have no logical sense and the [...]

Manawatu joins the New Zealand Cycle trail

Manawatu has joined Nga Haerenga, the New Zealand Cycle Trail thanks to the opening of a new touring route along the Country Road.

The 126km Manawatu Cycleway winds its way from Mangaweka to Palmerston North City, providing cyclists with a 2 day trip set against the unique rural landscape [...]

Air New Zealand is officially Australia’s favourite international airline

Air New Zealand is officially Australia's favourite international airline

At the inaugural Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Awards that were held recently in Australia, the winner of the International Airline of the Year award went to Air New Zealand.

Almost 4000 people who had used an international airline during the previous 12 months were surveyed by Roy [...]

Overnight cruises are back from Milford Wanderer after major refit

The Milford Wanderer is once again doing overnight cruises following a major refit that has seen it transformed from a boat with open dorm style accommodation that could carry 60 passengers into one with mainly double/twin cabins that now carry only 36 passengers.

Brian Humphrey is the general manager of maintenance and engineering for Real Journeys, [...]

$21 offer from Hukafalls Jet

One of New Zealand’s top tourist attractions, Hukafalls Jet, celebrated its 21st birthday last month, and to honour this milestone birthday, they offered anyone who turned 21 in November the chance to ride the thrilling Hukafalls Jet for a reduced cost of only $21, instead of the usual $105.

Ruth Crampton is the sales and marketing [...]

Return of Direct Flights from Japan to Christchurch

The resumption of the direct air services that started running three times a week from October 31st between Japan and Christchurch signifies the confidence that exists regarding the long term viability of Christchurch and Canterbury as an important destination for visitors, [...]

Queens Wharf for Cruise-friendly Auckland

Auckland is bang on target in its bid to enhance its profile as a top cruise destination thanks to the planned improvements that are to be made in downtown Auckland to its cruise facilities.

ATEED, the Auckland Tourism Events and Economic Development are supporting the work being done to improve facilities at Queens Wharf by Waterfront [...]

New Service: Mt Cook/Christchurch/Queenstown from Air New Zealand

Air New Zealand are set to have their 28th domestic destination within their network with the announcement that they will be trialling a new route including Mt Cook. The trial will take place in the summer of 2012/13 and the new [...]

Rotorua and Queenstown get extra flights from Air New Zealand

It has been announced by Air New Zealand that they will be increasing their capacity between Rototua and Queenstown, via Christchurch. They are doing this by upgrading six services per week to a Boeing 737. The airline is currently operating 3 [...]

Wellington Airport is tops on the bottom of the world

The world travel awards have recently been held in Bangkok and in late September Wellington International airport was named as the best airport in Australasia. These awards are in existence to celebrate award excellence in all sectors and areas of tourism and global travel, those who take the awards home are decided by travel agents.

Wellington [...]

Buying A Motorcycle in New Zealand as a long term tourist

Whether you are a backpacker or a long term visitor or are taking your gap year in New Zealand, you will need a cheap mode of transport to get around. If there are a few of you, chipping in for a car is a popular option, but if you are on your own, or part [...]

Buying A Car in New Zealand as a long term tourist

If you are looking to spend a long time in New Zealand, but not move there permanently, you may find that your most cost effective way of getting around is by buying a car. This may not be the case in other countries, but due to the influx of Japanese cars into New [...]

Sesar takes on the Future of Flying

When you look up at the skies above us, what do you see? Blue sky, clouds, the odd plane, it’s hard to believe from down here that the skies over Europe are getting seriously overcrowded. It is, however, fact that the amount of aircraft in the skies is reaching a critical level. There are currently [...]

KLM sending a giggle jiggle card

If you are one of the many who think that KLM is just a domestic Dutch airline, then think again. KLM fly to some far flung and exotic destinations, and some of these are highlighted in their latest venture, the fun and ingenious giggle, jiggle e-cards. Intended for any use, these great e-cards can be [...]

Auckland New Zealand trains

In previous years in Auckland, there have been designed plans for a subway. In the rail infrastructure, the tracks, stations and train units have seen hardly any investment for many years.

A reversal marked the opening of the Britomart Transport Center in 2003. The current rail network resembles more of a suburban railway than a [...]

Driving in Auckland

In Auckland – as in all of New Zealand – you can enjoy the private road as it is given a higher priority than public transport. This is evident, for example, because the metropolitan area has – for its size – a very extensive road network.

On the other side of the highway network was at [...]

Auckland airport New Zealand

The city of Auckland has the largest airport in the country, the Auckland International Airport. This is located about 21 kilometers south of the city center in Mangere (Manukau City). In 2004, 11 million passengers were handled – of which 6 million went to international destinations.

Projections estimate the number of passengers in 2050 to be [...]

Auckland City Bus

Buses are by far the largest public transport in Auckland. Since taking office, Dick Hubbard, extended and expanded the bus service across the entire metropolitan area and distributed stations.

Unfortunately, buses are still extremely punctual and it is not easy to figure out unfamiliar routes with the best connection. In addition, a total of five different bus [...]

Air New Zealand joins up with Virgin Blue

Air New Zealand has formed a coalition with Virgin Blue and will be expanding its operation in Australia causing some concern to Australian national carrier Quantas. Cam Wallace, General Manager of Air NZ Australia, said sales of the cross country product will commence on 1st July.

The airline will be working intimately with its new partner [...]

China Southern Airlines first flights into New Zealand

China Southern Airlines, China’s largest airline and the fourth biggest carrier in the world, paid its first visit to Auckland last weekend. In 2009 this airline carried over 65 million passengers to almost 900 cities in 169 countries.

Tourism New Zealand is working closely with Immigration to make it easier for Chinese tourists to obtain visas. [...]

Air New Zealand upgrades economy seats

The new state of the art Economy seats designed for Air New Zealand have been made to provide comfort and rest with the armrest disappearing into the back upright part of the seat, even on window seats and the new winged headrest swivels freely making a better support for your head and has a new [...]

Cuddle Class Beds on air New Zealand

A new class of seats called “Cuddle Class Beds” is what makes the aircraft unique that was just received by Air New Zealand. These beds are made by converting an economy seat during flight.

Families and couples will be able now to lie down together for a long flight in the Skycouch seats. They are built [...]

Qantas set to increase New Zealand fares

Qantas is going to lay it on you with as much as a 5% pile up on your air fare. This increase will apply not only to domestic, but also to trans-Tasman and regional flights and will be applied beginning February 25th.

Qantas claims fuel prices increases are fuelling the ticket increase. The IATA jet fuel [...]

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Aviation

New Zealand is among the countries with the most airports per capita. In 2002 there were 113 paved and unpaved airfields in the country. Auckland airport is home to over 11 million passengers per year, by far the largest airport in the country.

Then follows the international airports in Christchurch and Wellington, which handle about [...]

UK departure tax will hit New Zealand tourism

The British government has moved to slap a hefty increase on departure tax for travelers flying from Britain to destinations overseas, and it’s on a graduated scale that means the farther you travel, the greater the departure tax. This in turn means that New Zealand is going to be one of the most expensive destinations [...]

Auckland MAXX transport

The train station is located in the Auckland Britomart Transport Center. From here, passenger trains travel through Hamilton and Palmerston North to Wellington.

The once daily traffic link in the North Island of the country is referred to as the Overlander. In 1976 the passenger traffic on the line north of Auckland was set in the [...]

Virgin Blue and Air New Zealand Can’t Get Together

Virgin Blue’s strategy to unite worldwide alliances in an effort to take on its competition from Quantas was dealt a blow when the Australian government refused its effort to ally with Air New Zealand.

This comes on the heels of a similar blow from the United States government who rejected a bid from Blue for an [...]

New Zealand starts biometric checks at airports

As part of a crackdown on new immigrants that arrive in New Zealand as possible ‘persons of interest,’ biometric checks will now be a part of customs control.

The fingerprint checks will be conducted in association with Australia as part of a new programme that will reduce the amount of people affected by identity fraud and [...]

Virgin Blue stop flights within New Zealand, video

Virgin Blue is planning to halt all flights within New Zealand and instead send their airplanes to international routes that are deemed ‘short-haul’ after facing tens of millions of dollars in losses from the Tasmanian region over the last three years.

The major airline announced that as part of the first phase of its review, 737 [...]

Air New Zealand and Virgin Blue

The nation’s largest carrier, Air New Zealand Ltd has denied buying a stake in Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd. The two airlines are awaiting a ruling on an alliance proposal. The former are conscious that alliances with Virgin Blue (Australia’s second largest carrier) include in most cases, an equity aspect, however their proposal does not.

The Sydney [...]

Jetstar to begin cheap flights to New Zealand

Jetstar, the low budget airline, is set to announce long haul low fares for two Airbus A330-200 services that it offers between Singapore and Auckland.

The daily direct return services from Singapore to Auckland will begin on March 17th, 20qq due to the fact that a large demand has been presented for such with commercial sales [...]

Air New Zealand offers beds in economy, video

Air New Zealand has unveiled a new seat design for its long-haul economy passengers – called the “Skycouch”.

The airline today showed off its prototype designs in a full-scale Boeing 777-300 cabin in built near its Auckland corporate headquarters.

Chief executive Rob Fyfe said the new seats would be installed in the first of its new Boeing [...]

Air New Zealand halves check in time

Air New Zealand has today unveiled a new kiosk check-in experience for passengers flying to Australia, aimed to halve the time it takes to check-in.

In a first for passengers departing from New Zealand, people travelling to Australia from Auckland International Airport are now able to check themselves in, with more than 1500 passengers flying to [...]

Air New Zealand adds new routes

Air New Zealand Ltd plans to increase its overall capacity on Asia and North American services starting in November in an effort to improve their overall demand according to a statement made by the carrier on Tuesday.

The airline plans to add flight services to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Japan, and Vancouver from November to [...]

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