Great Barrier Airlines timetable August 1984

Great Barrier Airlines timetable 1 August 1984

Great Barrier Airlines timetable 1 August 1984

Unlike many of the small airlines I have published timetables for, Great Barrier Airlines still exists, albeit now Barrier Air.  Most recently Barrier Air took over the Auckland-Kaitaia route after Air NZ abandoned it, and it flies to Whitianga, as well as services between Great Barrier and Tauranga, and notably flights to Great Barrier from North Shore Airport at Dairy Flat. 

In 1984 Great Barrier Airlines was very much about providing a faster service between Auckland and Great Barrier Island. As with others, I won't repeat the excellent history of the airline published at 3rdlevelNZ which has much more detail about the origins and growth of the airline. 

This timetable depicts services to two Great Barrier airports at Claris and Okiwi. Services to Okiwi ceased in 2016, as Claris is the main airport on the island. Okiwi did not have a sealed runway at the time of this timetable.

At the time, Great Barrier Airlines had introduced the Britten-Norman Islander aircraft (depicted on the front page), an unpressurised small airliner with capacity for nine passengers (and still in production!). 

Notable is the blanking out of the price ($47) when I picked up the timetable, no doubt because the long-running wage and price freeze of the previous Muldoon Government had come to an end.