WELLINGTON AFP — Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Thursday abandoned its controversial bid to take a majority stake in New Zealand's aviation hub, Auckland International Airport. Dubai Aerospace Enterprise DAE and Auckland International Airport Ltd AIAL said they had terminated their merger agreement. Under the deal, the United Arab Emirates-based...
WELLINGTON AFP — Auckland International Airport said Friday that shareholders had approved a bid for a 40 percent stake by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. But New Zealand's government could still block the controversial partial takeover of the country's aviation hub, which handles 70 percent of the country's...
M2 PRESSWIRE-9 February 2001-SMI: Asia Pacific Airport Development APAD C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09022001 Asia Pacific Airport Development APAD 11th and 12th June 2001, Singapore Confirmed Speakers Include: Li Peiying, Chairman, Beijing Capital International Airport Kirby...
Sep 04, 2002 (The Mercury - ABIX via COMTEX) A wing panel that detached from an Air New Zealand Boeing 747 over Auckland was attached with four screws instead of the required 120. A report stating the screws were inserted as a temporary measure pending...
WELLINGTON AFP — A suspicious package which sparked a bomb scare and evacuation of a New Zealand mail centre was later identified as a harmless sex aid, a report said Thursday. An airport x-ray machine alerted staff about suspicious wiring in the parcel from China on Tuesday and it...
Driving over Carter Bar on the rolling road to Hawick, the memory of a mid-winter trip to New Zealand came to mind. The taxi driver at Auckland airport had been anxious to finish his shift in time to catch the television broadcast from Murrayfield. "Bill McLaren!" he exclaimed, reverentially. ...
NEW ZEALAND: A United Airlines flight from Sydney to San Francisco was forced to divert to Auckland airport yesterday after up to seven passengers were injured during turbulence over the Pacific. A passenger with a head injury and several others with broken bones were taken to hospital. "The turbulence was...
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Customs officials at Auckland Airport in New Zealand have seized 4.5kg of heroin and 1kg of crystal methamphetamine with a street value of NZD30m. Four people have been remanded in custody. Norway is to impose a ban on flights over...
Aug 18, 2003 (New Zealand Traveltrade - ABIX via COMTEX) Rumours circulating about Virgin Blue's international flight plans to New Zealand NZ are premature. According to Virgin Blue strategy manager, David Huttner, the company is looking at flying internationally before Christmas but did not...
Sep 17, 2003 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian airline, Virgin Blue, will commence trans-Tasman services in February 2004 with a new subsidiary, Pacific Blue. Initial operations will be between Brisbane and Christchurch, the location of its New Zealand headquarters. It...
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