The ATR 72-600, ZK-MZG, entered service on Thursday with a maiden flight from Christchurch to Invercargill, having touched down on 29 December after a week-long ferry flight from Toulouse via Heraklion, Riyadh, Oman, Hyderabad, Kuala Lumpur, Denpasar, …
The mistake last week, blamed on a ‘coding error’, saw first-class tickets to the US published for sale at around an 85 per cent discount, and remained up for eight hours before being corrected.
The extra service, which was initially due to launch in November, means the carrier will now fly to the Queensland capital 25 times per week in total.