Smooth landing for DC10
By
LES BLOXHAM,
travel editor
The first DCIO to visit Christchurch on a scheduled service in seven years landed as “smooth as silk” yesterday morning after an 11hour flight from Bangkok. The Thai Airways’ inaugural flight carried 130 passengers and a crew of 19.
Only six passengers disembarked at Christchurch — the other 124 continued on to Auckland.
Airline executives said they were confident that Christchurch would become more popular as the service became better known.
The flight carried a birthday cake specially baked and iced in Thai’s colours in Bangkok to mark the sixty-first birthday of the Mayor of Christchurch, Sir Hamish Hay.
Sir Hamish, who was at the airport to welcome the flight, also received on behalf of the city an inlaid gold wall hanging from the Mayor of Bangkok.
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