Cook Strait Airways

Cook Strait Airways was established in 1935. Into NAC (National Airways Corporation) via Union Airways

[ – NAC (New Zealand National Airways Corporation) was established by the Government to provide domestic air services after nationalising UNION AIRWAYS. The new corporation took over COOK STRAIT AIR & WEST COAST AIR TRAVEL. Renamed to NAC (NATIONAL AIRWAYS CORPORATION in the 1970s)]
Air Travel (NZ), founded by Captain Bert Mercer in 1934, began operations on 18Dec1934 & started scheduled airmail services on 31Dec1934

[ – 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. The 3 airlines that made up Air New Zealand Link were all merged back under the parent company
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