More competition on flights to NZ as Hainan Airlines announces Shenzhen route

More competition on flights to NZ as Hainan Airlines announces Shenzhen route
Edwin Mitson
By Edwin Mitson Oct. 3 (BusinessDesk) - Hainan Airlines has become the latest international airline to announce a new route to New Zealand, with a service to Auckland from the Chinese city of Shenzhen. It will operate three times a week using an A330 aircraft from Dec. 31, which Auckland International Airport estimates will boost the economy by $102 million and would increase capacity by 81,000 seats from China. Some 311,424 Chinese tourists visited New Zealand in the year to the end of August, an increase of 29 percent on the year-earlie...