Kiwi Air is adding more services from Tauranga Airport just two weeks after its first flights to and from the city. Kiwi Regional Airlines' first flights from Tauranga Airport to Nelson and on to Dunedin started on February 16, while it will extra services from May and add a route to Christchurch twice a week.
Kiwi Regional Airlines chief executive Ewan Wilson, said the services had proved popular, and ticket sales on the airline's existing twice-weekly flights to Nelson and on to Dunedin had been excellent.
As well as the Christchurch flights, the company would add an extra Tauranga to Nelson to Dunedin flight each week.
The airline, which operates the 34-seater Saab 340, will fly from Tauranga to Christchurch twice-weekly, on Thursday and Saturday, from May 14, and Tauranga to Nelson and Dunedin three times a week from May 19.