Air New Zealand domestic timetable October 1986 - March 1987 Part Two - The timetable

Without going into details about the flight timetable, noting it included several airports no longer served by Air New Zealand today (Oamaru, Kaitaia, Westport, Whakatane for example), Boeing 767 services consisted on average of one flight a day between Auckland and Wellington, three flights a week Auckland and Christchurch, with one flight a week with a Boeing 747 on that route. One flight a week from Christchurch to Wellington was operated by a Boeing 767. Thus the availability of Pacific Class (Business Class) on domestic services was very limited indeed!

The timetable has direct flights depicted rather simply, with a large series of connections. What was good about a printed timetable was the ease of seeing what services would operate on different days, and what connections might be available (but of course price of fares depends on availability which would only be known by contacting a travel agent).

Note the timetable includes timetables for multiple other airlines that Air New Zealand was co-ordinating with at the time notably:

• Mount Cook Airline (which Air New Zealand owned a significant shareholding in)
• Eagle Airways (which Air New Zealand ultimately bought)
• Safe Air (which supplied passenger service to the Chatham Islands using an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy passenger pod inserted in the freighter's fuselage)
• Bell Air (operating Auckland to Whakatane)
• Southern Air (operating from Invercargill to Stewart Island)

Auckland departures

Auckland departures

Auckland and Blenheim departures

Blenheim and Christchurch departures

Christchurch departures

Christchurch departures

Christchurch and Dunedin departures

Dunedin departures

Gisborne departures

Gisborne and Hamilton departures

Hamilton and Hokitika departures

Hokitika and Invercargill departures

Invercargill and Kaitaia departures

Kaitaia and Napier departures

Napier and Nelson departures

Nelson departures

Nelson and New Plymouth departures

New Plymouth, Oamaru and Palmerston North departures

Palmerston North and Rotorua departures

Rotorua and Taupo departures

Taupo and Tauranga departures

Tauranga and Timaru departures

Timaru and Wanganui departures

Wanganui and Wellington departures

Wellington departures

Wellington, Westport and Whakatane departures

Whakatane and Whangarei departures

Mount Cook Airline timetable

Mount Cook Airline timetable

Mount Cook Airline and Safe Air timetable

Bell Air and Eagle Airways timetables

Eagle Airways and Southern Air timetables