Owing to its distant location on the southwestern fringe of the Pacific Ocean, long-haul commercial aircraft are crucial to New Zealand’s aviation sector. Presently, the country’s flag carrier airline, Air New Zealand, operates aircraft from Boeing’s 777 and 787 ‘Dreamliner’ families for this purpose, with 9 and 14 examples respectively.
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