Freedom Air

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Disambiguation: Freedom Air (Guam) is an airline of the same name which operates in Guam.

<tr><td colspan="3" style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFFFFF;">Image:HeaderNewLogobg.GIF</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2">Hubs</th><td>Auckland International Airport</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2">Focus cities / secondary hubs</th><td>Hamilton International Airport
</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2">Alliance</th><td>Star Alliance (as an affiliate member, under parent company Air New Zealand)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2">Parent company</th><td>Air New Zealand Ltd.</td></tr>

Freedom Air
IATA SJ	ICAO FOM	Callsign Free Air
Founded		1995
Fleet size		0 (Aircraft from Zeal320 used)
Destinations		11
Headquarters		Auckland, New Zealand
Key people		Rob Fyfe (CEO, Air New Zealand); Stephen Jones (General Manager, Zeal320)
Website: http://www.freedomair.com

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Freedom Air is Air New Zealand Group's low-cost airline, based in Auckland. It operates scheduled passenger services from New Zealand to Australia and Fiji. It uses crew and aircraft from Air New Zealand's Zeal320 Operating Company. Its main hub is Hamilton International Airport, with secondary hubs in Palmerston North and Dunedin.

1 History
2 Services
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

The airline was established in 1995 as a response to the commencement of discount services between Australia and New Zealand by Kiwi Airlines and started operations on 8 December 1995 with a single Boeing 757. It was formed as South Pacific Air Charters by Mount Cook Airline. It is now wholly owned by Air New Zealand. By 2004 its fleet had expanded to five Boeing 737-300 aircraft and it was providing direct non-stop services to the Australian cities of Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney and Melbourne from Hamilton, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Palmerston North. It briefly operated on the New Zealand main trunk domestic routes such as Auckland-Christchurch, but ceased these services to concentrate on providing value trans-Tasman flights.

[edit] Services

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[edit] Fleet

As of August 2006 the Freedom Air fleet includes <ref>Flight International, 3-9 October 2006</ref> :

10 Airbus A320-200

In June 2005 it took delivery of the first of four new Airbus A320-232 aircraft leased from Air New Zealand. The new aircraft replaced Boeing 737-300s.

Its fleet was transferred in June 2006 to Air New Zealand's Zeal320 Air Operator's Certificate (AOC), the sole operator of former Air New Zealand and Freedom Air Airbus aircraft. Currently Zeal320 has one aircraft (ZK-OJO) painted in Freedom Air livery. ^{[citation needed]}