
Air Travel (NZ), founded by Captain Bert Mercer in 1934, began operations on 18Dec1934 and started scheduled airmail services on 31Dec1934. On the 01Apr1947 NZNAC took over the operation of Union Airways and Cook Strait Airways’ services.
[ – Air New Zealand originated on 26Apr1940 as Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL), a company operating trans-Tasman flights between New Zealand and Australia. TEAL became wholly owned by the New Zealand government in 1965, whereupon it was renamed Air New Zealand. Operations started on 01Apr1965. The domestic side was started in 1947 as NZNAC (New Zealand National Airways Corporation) trading as National Airways. In 1978 the New Zealand government merged all the owned airlines under the ANZ name
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