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New Zealand National Airways Corporation. Head Office.

The Head Office location of NZNAC. was Wellington, New Zealand. not Auckland, as you have listed.

i was a staff member of the airline from 1963 until after meger with Air New Zealand in 1978.

Graham Lister. grumpa@clear.net.nz ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.101.123.7 (talk) 04:10, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:31, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

POV

The statement that "three Boeing 727-200 tri-jets were about to be ordered to expand domestic and Pacific services when the merger was forced through by the right-wing New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon." is very POV, biased, and inaccurate.124.197.15.138 (talk) 07:55, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Article name conflict

Please see Talk:National Airways#Move to National Airways Corporation. Roger (talk) 19:19, 5 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Air New Zealand National

The idea that NAC continues in some way in the ANZ National part of ANZ appears to me to be wishful thinking and should not be in the NAC article. I am inclined to delete this whole section as it is not really supported by any references. Andrewgprout (talk) 08:44, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Further expansion needed - and should be allowed

Point of views need to be kept in check with this artical. There are still many opportunities to expand and make accurate some of the sub-paragraphs. In the last two or so years, fresh information about NAC has been made avalible for use. This can only be beneficial to this Wiki page.AlexCherr72 (talk) 02:56, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Islander as replacement to Heron

The irony is that this aircraft type was, originally, a proposed replacement for the venerable de Havilland Rapide/Dominie in the 1960s.[citation needed]

I have added a citation needed tag to this sentence as I wonder whether the chronology supports this. The first Production Islander was not produced till 1967 - the last Heron was ? (when Rongotai aerodrome closed for good in the late 50's) Something does not fit. Andrewgprout (talk) 07:37, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ok the moment I pushed the save button I have realised I have confused Heron's with Rapide/Domine's - The heading probably needs changed as the paragraph has strayed from begining to end to a different subject, and my original point may still be true of the Dominie. When were they around to. Andrewgprout (talk) 07:42, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Further to Above David Rendel says in Civil Aviation in NZ ISBN 0589009052 p.47 that the last Domine was phased out in 1963. A full 5 years before the BN islander was a practical alternative. I'm also not sure that words like Irony and venerable are particularly Encyclopedic and portray an unwarrented amount of POV.Andrewgprout (talk) 05:20, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Low morale

The "new" Air New Zealand airline immediately suffered from low staff moral, a divided operating fleet and incompatible management systems. A result being years of very slow growth, recession, and a major tragic event to endure.[6]

I am removing the reference on this paragraph and restoring the citation needed template. The ref is really a note and does not satisfy my disquiet about this. We need a reference to support the low staff morale (sp) statement. Also I don't think you will find a reliable reference that supports the merger as a factor in the Erebus disaster - this is simply stretching things way beyond where they should be.Andrewgprout (talk) 01:35, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ZK-ALC

ZK-ALC Fire moved back to the "Other Incidents" list as no fatalities had occured. AlexCherr72 (talk) 19:29, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 22:51, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

National Airways Corporation (New Zealand) → New Zealand National Airways Corporation – "New Zealand National Airways Corporation" was the full formal name of the airline and it avoids the use of parenthesis in the article title. Nankai (talk) 02:50, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Initial Destinations

There is an unresolved conflict in this article. It states that NAC began with 22 initial destinations within New Zealand, including Wanganui. It then states that Wanganui was not added until 1954. Can anybody clarify which is correct, or add more information to explain how this could be? Its-mrb (talk) 02:16, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Update - this has now been resolved by Andrewgprout Its-mrb (talk) 01:16, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Kaka and pigeons

After the Kaka crash on Ruapehu in 1948, reporters were with search teams when the wreckage was reached in atrocious weather. Of course, there were no phones up there but the reporters were prepared for that. Some carried homing pigeons in little baskets. Copy was written in shorthand on tissue paper which was attached to the leg of a pigeon which was then released to fly back home. I think both the Wanganui Herald and Wanganui Chronicle got their initial news stories this way. I believe it was the last time homing pigeons were used in New Zealand to convey major breaking news. Unfortunately, I can't find a ref to justify a NOTE about this on this article. Anyone got access to the Wanganui Herald or Chronicle files from that time?Moriori (talk) 22:36, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

aka to passengers as

Nobody Actually Cares. Eddaido (talk) 21:28, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]