IPA announces NZ-India direct air service

A new Macau based pan Asian budget international airline is set to begin operations connecting Pacific and South Asian destinations beginning August this year.
In the first twelve to eighteen months of its operations, India Pasifika Airlines will connect Pacific urban centres like Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney, Nadi and Hawaii with major destinations in South Asia such as Mumbai, New Delhi, Colombo and Dhaka, senior airline officials revealed at a media conference in Auckland yesterday.
“The trunk routes will be serviced by our Airbus A380 aircraft while we will also run hub and spoke operations within Australia and flying between Nadi and Brisbane employing modern smaller jets like the Embraer 190,” Executive Director – South East Asia Operations, Asanka Senaviratne told media and a large gathering of travel agents at a prestigious hotel in downtown Auckland.
Initially, Auckland will be connected to Mumbai with a once a week A380 service via a halt in Brisbane. However, passengers can fly to New Delhi via Sydney from where there will be two flights a week – one each serviced by a Boeing 777-300ER and A380 aircraft (passengers will have to make their own way to Sydney from New Zealand cities).
31/03/10 Indian Weekender, New Zealand

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Categories: Foreign Apr 2010, New Apr 2010