Welcome

To the inaugural edition of our inflight magazine Air Chats!

Our family airline has been growing steadily over the past five years, with new opportunities to provide essential air services not just to the remote Chatham Islands but also to regional destinations in the North Island of New Zealand including Whakatāne, Whanganui and the Kāpiti Coast. And we are also excited to announce that in September this year we will commence our first ever scheduled international passenger service between Auckland and Norfolk Island!

With the addition of all these great destinations we decided it was time that our airline had a way to show you, our travelling public, just how awesome these places are. So each quarter Air Chats will be showcasing amazing and interesting articles focussed on the areas we serve, as well as some behind the scenes glimpses of what our busy little team have been up to and the exciting developments coming your way.

Speaking of exciting developments, we rolled out our new website built in collaboration with the great team at Tomahawk and with Travel Technologies Interactive we’ve introduced a new passenger reservations system called Zenith. We can now provide our customers with new features such as online check-in, seat select and the ability to roll out even more customer focussed functionality over the coming months. We also aim to include a frequent flier programme, so if you are a regular on Air Chathams then watch this space.

We feel very lucky to have partnered with Andy and Sarah from Plenty Magazine to put Air Chats together, not just because we are supporting a great Eastern Bay of Plenty business but because the quality and depth of their work is extremely well regarded and will be evident in the features we showcase here.

We really hope you enjoy the first ever edition of Air Chats and thank you all for your ongoing support of our airline.

Ka kite anō and safe travels!

Duane Emeny, General Manager - Air Chathams