{"id":15682,"date":"2026-07-06T00:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15682"},"modified":"2026-07-06T00:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:03:44","slug":"air-new-zealand-returns-last-dreamliner-aircraft-from-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15682","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand returns last Dreamliner aircraft from storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Image and story from Air New Zealand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Auckland, new Zealand,\u00a0July 3, 2026<\/strong> &#8211; Air New Zealand has welcomed back its final Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner from long-term storage, marking a major milestone in the airline&#8217;s response to one of the most significant global supply chain challenges facing aviation in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since the global Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine shortage impacted aircraft availability, Air\u00a0New\u00a0Zealand now has no widebody aircraft in storage. At the peak of the engine shortage, the airline had five of its fourteen Boeing 787-9 aircraft grounded.<\/p>\n<p>Air\u00a0New\u00a0Zealand GM Fleet Baden Smith says the milestone is one step closer to having the full Dreamliner fleet operational.<\/p>\n<p>Air\u00a0New\u00a0Zealand worked with partners to carry out Trent 1000 engine changes in Alice Springs, allowing engines to be removed and sent for overhaul while the aircraft remained safely in storage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image and story from Air New Zealand Auckland, new Zealand,\u00a0July 3, 2026 &#8211; Air New Zealand has welcomed back its final Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner from long-term storage, marking a major milestone in the airline&#8217;s response to one of the most significant global supply chain challenges facing aviation in recent years. For the first time since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,9181,89,5637,5676,10355,10169,10617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline-news","category-australia-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-international-news","category-diversity","category-news","category-pacifica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15682","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=15682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15683,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15682\/revisions\/15683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}