Air New Zealand orders additional aircraft

During the presentation of its financial performance over fiscal year 2022-2023, Air New Zealand announced it has decided to order four and lease one additional aircraft to keep up with the growing demand.

The new orders are for two ATR72-600s and two Airbus A321-200NXs. The ATRs are scheduled for delivery in 2024 and 2025, while the delivery date for the Airbuses is unknown.

The additional planned leased aircraft is a Boeing B777-300ER and is due to join the fleet later this year. It will replace a wet-leased Airbus A330 from Wamos Air. The airframe involved is T7-SON (36157), which is owned by Air Lease Corporation and currently being prepared for Air New Zealand at San Antonio (TX). It will become ZK-OKU and was previously in use with Cathay Pacific as B-KPJ.

Air New Zealand currently has a fleet of 29 ATR72-600s, seventeen A320s, six A320neos, ten A321neos, seven B777-300ERs, and fourteen B787-9s.

Photo by ATR Aircraft.