The increase of passengers to the Queenstown area has given the airport operators the opportunity to expand part of their baggage handling services. A new building that will be starting soon is expected to optimise passenger handling.

Anyone travelling between Tauranga and Christchurch and between Invercargill and Wellington are set to get a large boost in capacity.

There are many videos on the internet that you can clearly see are ‘fakes’ but this video from AvWeb.com really made me sit up and think what a lucky guy 22 year old Dino Moline was.

Wile trolling though the abundant supply of aviation videos on YouTube I came across this one. It’s a time laps of a 747 getting a new paint job.

It’s at nearly gross weight before the pilot steps in and can only fly for 15 minutes, but that’s not the point. Sikorsky Innovations sees the Firefly as a testbed for the technologies that may make for a real electric helicopter.

New direct flights to Melbourne and Cairns taking off – plus more Jetstar domestic services to Wellington. All in a days work for the budget airline flying in New Zealand.