Regional airline Air2there based in the lower North Island has been placed into receivership and a Piper Navajo plane and two engines have been seized. King said the services carried out by Air2there would have been relatively easily picked up by other operators such as Sounds Air which flew some similar routes over Cook Strait. It had been using his Piper Navajo for two years. Air2there faced new competition from late January 2015 when Sounds Air introduced thrice daily weekday flights between Paraparaumu and Blenheim. Sounds Air didn't pick up the traffic it anticipated and reduced its schedule.

Source: Stuff November 29, 2018 02:48 UTC