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Developing the Whitianga Service

 

Barrier Air will be making a flying visit next week for a meet and greet with members of the Mercury Bay Aero Club, the owner of the Whitianga airfield, ahead of its daily service to Auckland Airport, which has been confirmed to start on Thursday, 16 December. The company has announced that there will be two flights daily, except Tuesday and Saturday when there will be just one. Although it is still six months until the service is launched, there have already been a number of bookings. All that remains to be done is fit out an office, arrange signage and hire two ground staff in the next few months. According to its new schedule, the first flight from Auckland to Whitianga will leave at 7:00am and return from Whitianga at 8:00am, while the afternoon service will leave Auckland at 3:30pm, returning at 4:30pm. Fares will be $79, or $89 including 20kg of luggage, while there will be a $10 discount for children. In order to get up and running with its 14-seater Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft, Barrier Air had to get Airways New Zealand to design an Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) navigation system for the approach into the Whitianga airfield. The company’s CEO, Grant Bacon, said it was very similar to car navigation systems - except designed for planes - with waypoints and altitude restrictions which the pilot would follow down to the runway. “It essentially means that we can fly in virtually any weather, which obviously gives the service a lot of reliability,” Grant said. “It was quite a big investment for us, north of $30,000, to set it up. It shows our commitment to the route.” The only limitation on the schedule will be having to fly in daylight hours as there are no runway lights at the Whitianga airfield. Grant said they had a lot of feedback following an article in The Informer about the launch of the service a couple months back and had adjusted their scheduling accordingly. “Some people wanted to be able to go on day trips in either direction, returning home the same day,” he said. “We also got some feedback from people wanting to have connections to early flights from Auckland. The feedback has been excellent. People are really happy we are doing it in the first place, but more so the fact that it is being run as a reliable service with IFR, and also the feedback has been great on the pricing.” The company was also looking at doing packages for accommodation and local attractions. “I think it is going to work very well,” Grant said.

Source : https://www.theinformer.co.nz/detail.aspx?cid=4735&fbclid

Barrier Air has been listening to the market who wanted an earlier departure out of WTZ and so the morning weekday flights have been retimed 30 minutes earlier... The article is not quite right, two flights on Tuesday not one and one flight on Sundays, not two. The schedule will be as follows;

Monday - Friday

0700 and 1530 Auckland - Whitianga

0800 and 1630 Whitianga - Auckland 

Saturday 

0730 Auckland - Whitianga 

0830 Whitianga - Auckland

Sunday 

1530 Auckland - Whitianga 

1630 Whitianga - Auckland  

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