Virgin Australia to relinquish NZ air operator’s certificate

Virgin Australia plans to relinquish its New Zealand air operator’s certificate (AOC) and transfer its New Zealand-based fleet of 10 Boeing 737-800s onto the Australian register as part of plans to streamline the airline’s operations.

The 10 ZK-registered narrowbodies currently under Virgin’s NZ AOC will be progressively brought onto the airline’s Australian AOC and given VH- registrations. The first of these, ZK-PBA, was re-registered VH-VOO on January 30, according to a search of the CASA civil aircraft register database.

Once Virgin’s NZ AOC has been relinquished, Virgin will have three remaining Australian AOCs.

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