Taxiing to our gate
Interior shot
Middle of Middle Earth!
ZK-NGJ!
WELLINGTON AIRPORT
We made our way to our gate for the flight down to Queenstown seeing as we only had an hour connection. I managed to get a few photos from our gate; I finally managed to catch Vincent Aviation’s BAe-146 ZK-ECO.
Our aircraft arrived about 30 minutes before we were due out, it was ZK-MCW. Boarding commenced on-time so we made our way out to the ATR72!
November 29, 2012
Air New Zealand
NZ5401
WLG-ZQN
ZK-MCW AT72
Seat 9D
On our way out to ZK-MCW
Interior, it certainly looks out dated compared to the Virgin ATR72s in my opinion, it was still comfortable.
It was definitely a full flight, and the captain went on the p/a system and said there was a problem! Because of weather in Queenstown the plane had to take on extra fuel, meaning that the aircraft was now over its MTOW. So he said there was two options, option 1 was to unload 150kg of bags which would get us under the limit or two passengers could volunteer to hop off and be put on a flight to Queenstown via Auckland, with access to the Air New Zealand lounge in Auckland and a $200 Air New Zealand voucher. I was interested! I asked Josh in front of me if he wanted to do it as well, but before he could say yes, two passengers at the back volunteered! Oh well. So the two passengers got off the plane to the applause of all the other passengers and the crew on-board! So after that, we were all clear to go to Queenstown!
Lining up on RWY34
Beginning the 180 degree turn to the south
Wellington Airport
Wellington City and Airport
Mountains of the South Island
