Holiday flights busy

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34044, 7 January 1976, Page 10

Holiday flights busy

1 he National Airways < orporatiun has had a i busier Christmas-New i Year period than usual. I More >han 56.000 passen-’t Sers flew in and out of Christchurch Airport on < domestic flights during the < two weeks from December s 19 to January 4 Bookings for internal, flights out of Christchurch! are 1.4 per cent more than! at the corresponding time last year. The busiest day was De-i •ember 24, when nine addi-> tional flights were made. This meant that therej were 35 domestic flights out; of Christchurch that day.’; < ompared with about 26 a ‘ •lay during the rest of the , holiday period, and 17 a dayf[ at other times of the year. The NAC. has taken sev- j rral measures to alleviate the pressure of holiday trav- t e'lers An additional Boeing t 737 has been brought into service, so. despite the extra i traffic, there is no shortage i of flights. it

The pressure is expected to ease slightly during the next week, but to recur before schools reopen at the end of the month Both Air New Zealand and Quantas report a similar increase in bookings for overseas flights.