ZK-NZD flew out of Alice Springs on 28 June, having been in long-term storage since September while its Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines were repaired, and operated its first commercial flight since last August on 30 June as NZ8 from Auckland to San Francisco.
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April 2023: It was during this time that Qatar Airways revealed that it would be acquiring Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft that were made undeliverable to their original Russian customers. This, of course, was due to sanctions imposed after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.All of these jets had been ordered by S7 but would be delivered to Qatar Airways around mid-2023. So what did the airline do with them?