Freedom Air
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| Freedom Air | ||
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| IATA SJ |
ICAO FOM |
Callsign Free Air |
| Founded | 1995 | |
| Hubs | Auckland International Airport | |
| Focus cities | Hamilton International Airport |
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| Alliance | Star Alliance (affiliate member under parent company Air New Zealand) | |
| Fleet size | 0 (Zeal320 aircraft used) | |
| Destinations | 11 | |
| Parent company | Air New Zealand Ltd. | |
| Headquarters | Auckland, New Zealand | |
| Key people | Rob Fyfe (CEO, Air New Zealand); Stephen Jones (General Manager, Zeal320) | |
| Website: http://www.freedomair.com | ||
Freedom Air is Air New Zealand Group's low-cost airline, based in Auckland. It operates scheduled passenger services from New Zealand to Australia and Fiji. It uses crew and aircraft from Air New Zealand's Zeal320 Operating Company. Its main hub is Hamilton International Airport, with secondary hubs in Palmerston North and Dunedin.
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[edit] History
The airline was established in 1995 as a response to the commencement of discount services between Australia and New Zealand by Kiwi Airlines and started operations on 8 December 1995 with a single Boeing 757. It was formed as South Pacific Air Charters by Mount Cook Airline. It is now wholly owned by Air New Zealand. By 2004 its fleet had expanded to five Boeing 737-300 aircraft and it was providing direct non-stop services to the Australian cities of Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney and Melbourne from Hamilton, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Palmerston North. It briefly operated on the New Zealand main trunk domestic routes such as Auckland-Christchurch, but ceased these services to concentrate on providing value trans-Tasman flights.
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[edit] Fleet
In June 2006 aircraft from Freedom Air were combined with Air New Zealands fleet of Airbus A320-200 under the Air Operators Certificate (AOC) of Zeal320 Limited, which is now the sole operator of the Air New Zealand Groups Airbus fleet[1]. Currently Zeal320 has one aircraft (ZK-OJO) painted in Freedom Air livery[2].
As such, Freedom Air has no aircraft or current Air Operators Certificate, and Freedom Air is no longer an operational entity.
[edit] External links
- Freedom Air International
- Freedom Air Passenger Opinions
- Freedom Air Pictures
- Details on AviationPage New Zealand
[edit] References
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| Scheduled passenger services | Air Chathams · Air New Zealand (including Air Nelson, Eagle Airways, Freedom Air, and Mount Cook Airline) · Air West Coast · Air2there · Aspiring Air · Capital Air · Great Barrier Airlines · Kiwi Pacific Airlines · Pacific Blue · JetConnect (Qantas) · Mountain Air · Sounds Air · Stewart Island Flights |  |
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Glenorchy Air · Air Fiordland · Air Freight NZ · Air National · Air Post · Airwork · Skylink · Vincent Aviation | |
| Former airlines | Ansett New Zealand · Kiwi International · Union Airways · NAC · SPANZ · Tasman Empire Airways · Origin Pacific Airways | |
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