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Traffic At. Airport Extremely heavy bookings en National Airways Corporation flights in and out of Christchurch yesterday may have created a traffic record for the airport Full figures will not be available until tomorrow, but about 70 flights were made between 5 azn. and midnight. The airline had to charter an Electra from Air New Zealand and a Hawker Siddeley and DCS Skymaster from Meant Cook Airlines. “Although we have had the same number of aircraft movements at Christchurch before, these are bigger planes capable of carying more passengers,’* the regional manager for N.A.C. in Christchurch (Mr J. E. Davies) said last evening. “Today was a normally busy day anyway because of the school holidays. But now the situation with the Maori and the Wellington Airport daring yesterday has arisen and we had to start much earlier,” he said Eight special flights were run because of the disruptions at Wellington Airport, three of them by the Electra.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31984, 10 May 1969, Page 1
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