An essential worker who will help Air New Zealand convert some of its wide-body Boeing aircraft into cargo freighters has been given a special exemption to enter New Zealand. JOHN SELKIRK/Stuff An Air New Zealand Boeing 777-200 lands at Auckland International Airport. Air Canada has already achieved this, reconfiguring a Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, the largest in Air Canada's fleet, to transport cargo in the passenger cabin, doubling cargo capacity. The Cabinet paper said the exemption request included an exemption for the worker's wife and child. Jason Dorday/Stuff Air New Zealand aircraft sit grounded with their engines covered at Auckland International Airport during lockdown.

Source: Stuff June 28, 2020 03:00 UTC