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Air New Zealand has actually grounded its Boeing 777 fleet until at least September 2021 due to the ongoing impact of Covid-19
Among Air New Zealand’s 777-200 aircraft, ZK-OKG, parked up in Auckland.
Photo: Provided/ Air NZ
In May, the airline grounded the majority of its 7 777-300 aircraft until the end of the 2020 fiscal year. It signified it was unlikely to fly its eight 777-200 airplane in the foreseeable future and started preparing to send out these into long term storage overseas.
In a release, the airline company stated four of the airplane will be kept in Victorville in the Californian desert and 3 would remain in Auckland where they can be utilized if required.
” The North American places were selected for their dry conditions and existing storage centers which will guarantee airplane are kept in a condition that will allow them to be gone back to service within 6 to eight weeks if required,” the airline said.
Air New Zealand chief running officer Carrie Hurihanganui said the healing of the airline’s worldwide network post-Covid-19 is seeming slower than initially believed.
” The recent renewal of cases in New Zealand is a suggestion that this is an extremely volatile scenario. We are not anticipating a go back to any 777 flying till September 2021 at the earliest, which is why we have actually decided to ground the fleet till a minimum of this time next year.”
The 777 s are the biggest airplane in Air New Zealand’s fleet.
Air New Zealand said it would will utilize the more fuel-efficient Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the A320 s and A320/21 neos for Trans-Tasman and Pacific Island routes.
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