{"id":307890,"date":"2025-10-27T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/flight-review-air-new-zealand-dash-8-q300-new-plymouth-christchurch\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:24:08","slug":"flight-review-air-new-zealand-dash-8-q300-from-new-plymouth-to-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=307890","title":{"rendered":"Flight Review: Air New Zealand Dash 8 Q300 From New Plymouth To Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I was traveling in New Zealand\u2019s North Island for work. I had flown earlier in the week between Christchurch and Palmerston North; however, for my return, I had booked an open-jaw, meaning I was flying home from a different city \u2013 this time, New Plymouth, the largest city in the region of Taranaki. For this flight, I was set to travel with Air New Zealand<\/a><\/span>, on the smallest aircraft currently in the airline\u2019s fleet, the De Havilland Canada DHC-8-300<\/a>, which is configured to carry 50 passengers across a four-abreast configuration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mystery and intrigue await as the smallest aircraft in Air New Zealand’s fleet takes flight…<\/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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1395,396,476,1397,614,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-new-zealand","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-christchurch-airport","category-flight-review","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t