Air New Zealand considering new U.S. routes within next 12 months

Air New Zealand has announced it is planning to launch several new routes to the United States. The airline is expected to make an announcement in future.

A spokesperson of the airline said that Air New Zealand is actively considering launching new flights to Chicago, Houston and Las Vegas. The airline is likely to begin nonstop flights to either of these cities within one year.

The airline is expected to deploy, one of its newly acquired Boeing 787-900 Dreamliner aircraft to operate flights on the new route.

The airline also stated that the performance of its new Boeing 787-900 Dreamliner aircraft on trans-tasman and Shanghai routes has been beyond expectations.

Air New Zealand is presently operating its flights to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver and has decided to increase its frequencies in 2015 in order to fulfill the increased passenger demand.

Travel experts said that there has been a surge of travelers between the two countries during the past two years. This could become possible following a recovery from the global financial crisis.

The urge and strong hopes to make a foray deeper into the U.S. with the launch of different routes have made the airline to study the possible new destinations over the past year.

The airline had earlier operated flights to Dallas/Fort Worth in Texas and considers Las Vegas to be a top leisure market.