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November 3, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia’s tourism industry is hopeful for a rebound as Air New Zealand resumed its flights over the weekend. To mark Air New Zealand’s return, on its social networks, Nouméa-La Tontouta international airport posted a vibrant “Welcome Back to New Caledonia Air New Zealand, we are ... <a title="Air New Zealand resumes Auckland-Nouméa flights after nearly 18-month suspension following riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/03/air-new-zealand-resumes-auckland-noumea-flights-after-nearly-18-month-suspension-following-riots/" aria-label="Read more about Air New Zealand resumes Auckland-Nouméa flights after nearly 18-month suspension following riots">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Air New Zealand has announced it plans to resume its Auckland-Nouméa flights from November, almost one and a half years after deadly civil unrest broke out in the French Pacific territory. “Air New Zealand is resuming its Auckland-Nouméa service starting 1 November 2025. Initially, flights will ... <a title="Air New Zealand to resume Auckland-Nouméa flights from November" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/air-new-zealand-to-resume-auckland-noumea-flights-from-november/" aria-label="Read more about Air New Zealand to resume Auckland-Nouméa flights from November">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2024
New Caledonia’s Tontouta International Airport remains closed, and Air New Zealand’s next scheduled flight is on Saturday — although it is not ruling out adding extra services. Air NZ’s Captain David Morgan said on Monday evening flights would only resume when they were assured of the security of the airport and safe access for passengers ... <a title="Kiwis trapped in Nouméa: Air NZ won’t fly from New Caledonia for days" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/20/kiwis-trapped-in-noumea-air-nz-wont-fly-from-new-caledonia-for-days/" aria-label="Read more about Kiwis trapped in Nouméa: Air NZ won’t fly from New Caledonia for days">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2024
New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has cancelled his visit to New Caledonia due to pro-independence unrest throughout the French Pacific territory. Peters and a delegation of other ministers was due to visit the capital Nouméa later this week. Nouméa’s La Tontouta International Airport is expected to remain closed until at least 5pm today ... <a title="NZ foreign minister Peters cancels New Caledonia visit as unrest erupts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/14/nz-foreign-minister-peters-cancels-new-caledonia-visit-as-unrest-erupts/" aria-label="Read more about NZ foreign minister Peters cancels New Caledonia visit as unrest erupts">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2022
RNZ News For the first time in more than two years, New Zealand’s border will reopen to international visitors at midnight tonight. On 19 March 2020, New Zealand snapped its border shut to anyone without citizenship or residency, before any covid-19-related deaths were recorded. It was the first time in our history such a move ... <a title="NZ border reopens to international and Pacific visitors tonight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/02/nz-border-reopens-to-international-and-pacific-visitors-tonight/" aria-label="Read more about NZ border reopens to international and Pacific visitors tonight">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2022
RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed that the whole of New Zealand will move into the red light covid-19 setting at midnight Sunday night (January 23, 2022) in response to the covid-19 pandemic. Nine covid-19 cases in Nelson yesterday have been confirmed as the omicron variant, Ardern said. Another household member has since ... <a title="NZ to move to red light setting tonight at midnight over omicron outbreak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/24/nz-to-move-to-red-light-setting-tonight-at-midnight-over-omicron-outbreak/" aria-label="Read more about NZ to move to red light setting tonight at midnight over omicron outbreak">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2021
Former business executive Christopher Luxon has been voted the new leader of New Zealand’s opposition National Party after main rival Simon Bridges moved to support him. It followed Judith Collins’ tumultuous exit as leader last week, after she summarily demoted Bridges last week. Shellshocked, MPs went into a hastily called caucus the next morning and ... <a title="Ex-Air NZ chief Christopher Luxon voted new National Party leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/01/ex-air-nz-chief-christopher-luxon-voted-new-national-party-leader/" aria-label="Read more about Ex-Air NZ chief Christopher Luxon voted new National Party leader">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2021
By Emmanuel Samoglou in Avarua, Cook Islands Cook Islands Te Marae Ora Ministry of Health has apologised to passengers who were offloaded in error on an Air New Zealand flight to Rarotonga on Thursday (Wednesday, Cook Islands time). The government said 13 passengers were offloaded off the flight after it was discovered they had originated ... <a title="Wellington travellers to Rarotonga offloaded ‘in error’ over covid scare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/26/wellington-travellers-to-rarotonga-offloaded-in-error-over-covid-scare/" aria-label="Read more about Wellington travellers to Rarotonga offloaded ‘in error’ over covid scare">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Dave Parry, Auckland University of Technology Although international travel restrictions for Australia have been extended to at least June, there may still be potential for a trans-Tasman bubble with New Zealand (and maybe some other countries), according to reports. Air New Zealand will begin trialling digital vaccine passports (or “immunity passports”) on routes ... <a title="How would digital covid vaccine passports work? And what’s stopping people from faking them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/06/how-would-digital-covid-vaccine-passports-work-and-whats-stopping-people-from-faking-them/" aria-label="Read more about How would digital covid vaccine passports work? And what’s stopping people from faking them?">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2020
RNZ News Genome sequencing has showed the Air New Zealand crew member who tested positive for covid-19 in China is not linked to known cases in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health says. In a statement, the ministry reported one new case of the coronavirus in managed isolation today. The person arrived on November 14 ... <a title="Air NZ covid case not linked to New Zealand genomes – one new case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/26/air-nz-covid-case-not-linked-to-new-zealand-genomes-one-new-case/" aria-label="Read more about Air NZ covid case not linked to New Zealand genomes – one new case">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
By Phil Pennington of RNZ News Air New Zealand stands accused of borderline legal treatment of thousands of workers as the country entered its first day in a month-long lockdown over the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. It has told its workers they must take all their leave soon, a move a union says is not in ... <a title="Lockdown: Airline crew ‘very anxious, worried’ as NZ redundancies loom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/lockdown-airline-crew-very-anxious-worried-as-nz-redundancies-loom/" aria-label="Read more about Lockdown: Airline crew ‘very anxious, worried’ as NZ redundancies loom">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand faced another day today consumed by Covid-19 coronavirus developments. The nation woke with the news that the country’s borders had been closed to anyone who was not a citizen or a permanent resident still fresh. Health Minister David Clark said the restrictions at the border would remain in place for ... <a title="NZ’s coronavirus cases climb to 39 but ‘no evidence’ of community spread" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/20/nzs-coronavirus-cases-climb-to-39-but-no-evidence-of-community-spread/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s coronavirus cases climb to 39 but ‘no evidence’ of community spread">Read more</a>
