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Star Alliance members Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand who announced an alliance in February, will launch their flights under the alliance from January 6, 2015. Tickets for their code-share flights are on sale now.
The alliance will see the two airlines operating one daily round-trip flight each, between Singapore and Auckland, and Singapore Airlines operating a daily flight between Singapore and Christchurch.
The two airlines hope to increase their capacity between New Zealand and Singapore by about 30%. Singapore Airlines will gain code-share connectivity to 40 destinations of Air New Zealand which will itself gain access to 50 destinations on the network of Singapore Airlines and its regional subsidiary SilkAir.
Alliance time-table
| Departure Time (local) | Arrival Time (local) | Total Flying Hours | Operated By | |
| SIN – AKL NZ281/SQ4281 SQ285/NZ3285 |
08:50 20:50 |
23:45 11:45 + 1 |
09:55 09:55 |
Air New Zealand Singapore Airlines |
| AKL – SIN NZ282/SQ4282 SQ286/NZ3286 |
01:15 13:30 |
06:45 19:00 |
10:30 10:30 |
Air New Zealand Singapore Airlines |
| SIN – CHC SQ297/NZ3297 |
19:45 | 10:40 + 1 | 09:55 | Singapore Airlines |
| CHC – SIN SQ298/NZ3298 |
12:00 | 17:40 | 10:40 | Singapore Airlines |
Air New Zealand will operate its newly refurbished Boeing 777-200 aircraft configured in Business Premier, Premium Economy, Economy Skycouch and Economy seating. Singapore Airlines will operate the retro-fitted Boeing 777-200ER aircraft to Christchurch, A380 super-jumbos to Auckland during Kiwi summers, which will switch to Boeing 777-300ERs during the northern summer time-table which is winter for New Zealand.
