{"id":239959,"date":"2025-06-22T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/flight-review-air-new-zealand-airbus-a320-economy-class-auckland-christchurch\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T07:00:16","slug":"how-air-new-zealands-kiwi-service-made-up-for-a-delayed-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=239959","title":{"rendered":"How Air New Zealand\u2019s Kiwi Service Made Up For A Delayed Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, June 13, I was returning home from a three-day trip on New Zealand\u2019s East Coast for business. For my return flight home, I was booked to travel from Gisborne to<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"266799\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/christchurch-airport\/\"  >Christchurch Airport<\/a><\/span>, a flight that is not operated directly, resulting in a <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255477\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/stopover\/\"  >stopover<\/a><\/span> in the country\u2019s biggest city, and busiest airport, Auckland. My first flight, an <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-new-zealand-worlds-largest-dash-8-300-airline\/\" >Air New Zealand Bombardier Dash 8 Q300<\/a> service, took around 40 minutes to travel gate to gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The journey on an Airbus A320 in Economy class from Auckland to Christchurch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1395,426,526,396,476,614,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-new-zealand","category-airbus","category-airbus-a320neo","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-flight-review","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239960,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239959\/revisions\/239960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}