{"id":644837,"date":"2026-10-29T12:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644837\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:56:15","slug":"air-new-zealand-gets-first-787-with-increased-mtow-skynest-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644837\/","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand Gets First 787 With Increased MTOW, Skynest Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Air New Zealand Gets First 787 With Increased MTOW, Skynest Delayed | Aviation Week<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"#main-content\" class=\"visually-hidden focusable\"><br \/>\n      Skip to main content<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__byline\" href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/adrian-schofield\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Schofield<\/a><br \/>\n                    October 29, 2026<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/airnz_new_787_credit_boeing.jpg\" alt=\"Air New Zealand 787-9\" class=\"b-lazy  img \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Boeing<\/p>\n<p>              Air New Zealand has taken delivery of the first <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/term\/boeing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boeing<\/a> 787-9 certified with increased maximum takeoff weight (MTOW), although it has delayed the introduction of its new economy-class bunk product. The aircraft arrived in Auckland on Oct. 29. It will be deployed on Air New Zealand\u2019s routes to North&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/schofield-adrian.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"b-lazy  img author__image \"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/adrian-schofield\" class=\"author--teaser__name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Schofield<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author--teaser__bio\">Adrian is a senior air transport editor for Aviation Week, based in New Zealand. He covers commercial aviation in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>            Subscription Required<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Air New Zealand Gets First 787 With Increased MTOW, Skynest Delayed is published in Aviation Daily, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN membership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Already a member of AWIN or subscribe to Aviation Daily through your company? <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/user\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Login<\/a>\u00a0with your existing email and password<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Not a member?\u00a0 Learn how to access the market intelligence and data you need to stay abreast of what&#8217;s happening in the air transport community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand Gets First 787 With Increased MTOW, Skynest Delayed | Aviation Week https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-644837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644837","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=644837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}