DC8 flights to clear backlog
It was business as usual with a vengeance at Christchurch Airport yesterday — but not before inid-morning, when planes began arriving from other centres to help take out 25fh or so waiting passengers.
National Airways put on four special aircraft to carry the extra traffic generated by the start of the August schoolholidays.
It also used t o chartered Air New Zeal < I)C8s and ar extra Friendship to cater for the backdog of passengers stranded at the airport on Sunday night after fog closed
things down. A third DCB was on stand-by.
The first DCB. bound for Auckland, left with a full load at 1 p.m.
The Qantas 7478 which should have landed at Christchurch Airport on Sunday night, but i istead returned to Sydney, touched down with its 300-odd passengers at the airport at 1.37 p.m. yesterday. The plane was airborne again at 3 p.m.
Qantas provided accommodation and meals in Christchurch for the 223 passengers who should have been on the jumbo jet on Sunday night.
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