Holidaymakers hop into an early Easter getaway

WEBWIRE – Friday, March 29, 2024

227,000 customers travelling over Easter weekend

790,000 customers travelling over the April school holidays

Easter treats available in AirNewZealand lounges

AirNewZealand is gearing up for a chockablock period of travel, with more than a million customers expected to fly over Easter weekend and the April school holidays.

Easter will start even earlier this year for the 54,000 customers hopping onboard, which is set to be the busiest day for travel. Over the weekend, AirNewZealand will welcome 227,000 customers in total.

Most of these customers (147,000) will be making domestic trips, with the regions of Queenstown, Wānaka & Central Otago, Nelson-Tasman, and Hawkes Bay emerging as the top destinations for a long weekend getaway.

The last day of the school term is Friday 12 April, which will be another busy day for travel. AirNewZealand will be welcoming around 52,000 customers onboard that day, and the same number again the following Friday.

Over the two-week period, AirNewZealand is expecting 790,000 customers in total (up 13 percent from the 2023 April school holidays) 519,000 travelling within Aotearoa, and 271,000 jetting off to international destinations. The most popular overseas spots for the school holidays are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Singapore and Los Angeles.

AirNewZealand Chief Customer and Sales Officer Leanne Geraghty says even though Easter and the school holidays are separate this year, customers are still making the most of both opportunities to travel.

Easter is early this year, but were seeing plenty of appetite for travel, with many of our customers setting off on Thursday to maximise the long weekend. Well be sweetening things up by serving hot cross buns and Easter eggs in our lounges.

With 227,000 customers travelling over the weekend, it will be busy, so we recommend allowing a little extra time at the airport to get through security. If your carry-on is filled to the brim with extra egg-shaped cargo, remember, you can always add a checked bag before you depart.

Looking forward to the school holidays, our team will be working hard to ensure our customers receive the best flying experience including the more than 4000 unaccompanied minors and 250 pets travelling with us during this time.

About AirNewZealand

AirNewZealands story started in 1940, first taking to the skies between Auckland and Sydney on a flying boat – a Short S30. Known for its warm Kiwi hospitality, today, the airline has 104 operating aircraft ranging from Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners and Airbus A320s to ATRs and Q300s, offering customers comfort in the latest most efficient jets and turboprops. Its a modern fuel-efficient fleet with an average age of 7.3 years.AirNewZealands global network of passenger and cargo services centres around New Zealand. Pre-Covid, the airline flew more than 17 million passengers every year, with 3,400 flights per week. AirNewZealand was recently named the Worlds Safest Airline by the Australian rating service AirlineRatings.com, highlighting the airlines laser-focus on safety. Last year, AirNewZealand won Best Corporate Reputation in New Zealand 8th year in a row.

AirNewZealand has a well-connected domestic business, connecting customers and cargo to 20 different regions around New Zealand. Internationally, the airline has direct flights to major cities across Australia, Asia, the Pacific Islands and the US, and through its strong relationships with alliance partners, offers customers more choice and convenience to connect further afield to hundreds of destinations. AirNewZealand has a particular focus on sustainability and its Sustainability Framework  helps guide the airlines efforts in tackling some of New Zealands and the worlds most complex challenges. AirNewZealand aircraft are proudly identified by its distinct tail livery of the Mangōpare, the Māorisymbolof the hammerhead shark which represents strength, tenacity, and resilience.

About Star Alliance

AirNewZealand is proud to be a member of Star Alliance. The Star Alliance network was established in 1997 as the first truly global airline alliance to offer worldwide reach, recognition and seamless service to the international traveller. Its acceptance by the market has been recognized by numerous awards, including the Air Transport World Market Leadership Award and Best Airline Alliance by both Business Traveller Magazine and Skytrax. The member airlines are: Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air China, Air India, AirNewZealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, Avianca, Brussels Airlines, Copa Airlines, Croatia Airlines, EGYPTAIR, Ethiopian Airlines, EVA Air, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, SWISS, TAP Portugal, Turkish Airlines, THAI and United. Overall, the Star Alliance network currently offers more than 18,500 daily flights to 1,321 airports in 193 countries.

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