{"id":15374,"date":"2025-11-02T22:25:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15374"},"modified":"2025-11-02T22:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:40:25","slug":"air-new-zealand-announces-new-christchurch-to-rarotonga-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15374","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand announces new Christchurch to Rarotonga route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story and Image from Air New Zealand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wynyard Quarter, Auckland, New Zealand, November 3, 2025<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0From May through to October 2026, the new seasonal service will operate up to three times a week, with flights departing Christchurch at 3:40pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and departing from Rarotonga at 11:30pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.<\/p>\n<p>With 18,000 seats available to book across the season, there will be plenty of opportunities for Cantabrians to jet off to paradise during the winter months.<\/p>\n<p>The launch marks another milestone in Air\u00a0New\u00a0Zealand&#8217;s commitment to growing international connectivity from Christchurch, giving South Islanders even more reasons to head straight for their holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Flights are available to book from Wednesday 5 November at <a class=\"airnz-Link airnz-Link--styled airnz-TextLink pw-LinkTracking\" href=\"http:\/\/www.airnewzealand.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.airnewzealand.co.nz<\/a>, subject to regulatory approval.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Route:<\/strong> Christchurch (CHC) \u2013 Rarotonga (RAR)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frequency:<\/strong> Up to three return services per week<\/li>\n<li><strong>Schedule:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Depart Christchurch 3:40pm (Tue, Thu, Sat)<\/li>\n<li>Depart Rarotonga 11:30pm (Mon, Wed, Fri)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Season:<\/strong> 26 May 2026 \u2013 24 October 2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bookings available from:<\/strong> Wednesday 5 November 2025<\/li>\n<li>Subject to regulatory approval<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pacific Resort Rarotonga 2025 Guide | Eat, Play &amp; Stay | Pacific Resort Hotel Group\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1YWy8OUEWg8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and Image from Air New Zealand Wynyard Quarter, Auckland, New Zealand, November 3, 2025 &#8211;\u00a0From May through to October 2026, the new seasonal service will operate up to three times a week, with flights departing Christchurch at 3:40pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and departing from Rarotonga at 11:30pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,10355,10169,10617,868,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline-news","category-diversity","category-news","category-pacifica","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15383,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15374\/revisions\/15383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}