He estimated he had been on 60 or 70 national and international flights and had never previously experienced a cancelled flight.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s bad timing. I wish it had happened on one of those other flights,\u201d he said. \u201cBut hiccups happen when one is travelling, I know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He watched the match on television and later regretfully read that the Eden Park atmosphere matched that of the 2011 Rugby World Cup final.<\/p>\n
The man received another Air New Zealand text on Sunday, which stated his return Sunday flight 5171 had also been cancelled for the same engineering reason.<\/p>\n
All flights in and out of Gisborne were operating on Monday.<\/p>\n
The passenger will receive a full refund from Air New Zealand.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was expecting a flight credit as was normal practice during Covid-19,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Air New Zealand chief operating officer Alex Marren said the aircraft\u2019s pilot reported an \u201cengineering discrepancy\u201d upon take-off when leaving Auckland, earlier on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile this did not impact the safety of the flight, standard operating procedure requires an engineering check to resolve the issue on the ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe decision was made to return the aircraft to Auckland where parts and engineers were readily available and where a test ground run could be undertaken.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis resulted in the cancellation of the NZ5164 service from Gisborne to Auckland.<\/p>\n
\u201cCustomers were rebooked to a service departing either that day or the next, and we apologise for the impact this had on their travel.\u201d<\/p>\n
On July 31, all Gisborne flights were cancelled after two de Havilland Q300s required repairs.<\/p>\n
At the time Mayor Rehette Stoltz said Air New Zealand was a lifeline to Gisborne as an isolated region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He estimated he had been on 60 or 70 national and international flights and had never previously experienced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12512,74,68,5263,8136,12511,12510,12505,12509,8142,12513,9517,70,2082,12506,12514,7973,1304,117,111,43,139,11550,69,9346,8143,12508,1534,12507,765,1361,80],"class_list":["post-10008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-12512","tag-after","tag-air","tag-all","tag-blacks","tag-blacksspringbok","tag-blockbuster","tag-cancellation","tag-capacity","tag-eden","tag-failed","tag-fans","tag-flight","tag-for","tag-gisborne","tag-leave","tag-leaves","tag-morning","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nights","tag-nz","tag-packed","tag-park","tag-quite","tag-saturday","tag-stranded","tag-test","tag-that","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}