Dave Macpherson (left) and Ewan Wilson of Kiwi Regional Airlines, pictured at Dunedin International Airport in February. Photo by Peter McIntosh.
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The new airline announced its first routes today, and said it would start each day with a return Dunedin-Queenstown flight from September 27.
The aircraft, a SAAB 340A 32-seat twin-engine turboprop model, would then fly mid-morning to Nelson direct from Dunedin.
From Nelson, KRA would fly return to Hamilton in the middle of the day, renewing a connection flown by thousands of passengers annually on both Origin Pacific and Air New Zealand until 2008.
The flight would then return from Nelson to Dunedin mid-afternoon, before repeating the Dunedin - Queenstown return flight in the early evening.
The airline planned to add a second aircraft, and additional routes, within the next 12 months.
