Origin Pacific Airways

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Origin Pacific Airways was an airline based in Nelson in New Zealand operating freight services. Until 10 August 2006 the airline also operated scheduled and charter passenger services. Its main base is at Nelson Airport (NSN). It ceased all operations on 15 September 2006.

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Services
4 Fleet
5 External links

[edit] Code Data

IATA Code: QO
ICAO Code: OGN
Callsign: Origin

[edit] History

Origin Pacific Airways was established in 1996 and started operations in April 1997. The airline is owned by Robert Inglis (managing director) and Nick Smith (50%), Mike Pero (25%) and a group of Wellington investors (25%). The airline ceased passenger operations on 10 August 2006. It then ceased all operations effective 15 September 2006. The airline experienced financial problems due to large inherited debts [1][2] and was unable to find investors to inject additional capital.

[edit] Services

Origin Pacific operated freight services in New Zealand. Until August 2006 the airline also operated domestic passenger services. On the 15th September 2006, Origin announced it was to wind up the company as it had failed to secure a buyer for its freight company.

Prior to the suspension of domestic passenger services, the airline (as at January 2005) operated the services to the following scheduled destinations: Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Auckland, Blenheim, Napier-Hastings, Nelson, New Plymouth, Palmerston North and Wellington. Dunedin flights were discontinued from 12 January 2005.

Origin also operated code-share flights on behalf of Qantas New Zealand from mid 2001, but these were stopped by 2003. As a result, the airline lost around 60% of its business and had struggled since.