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Air New Zealand is to operate a 171-seat Airbus service between Hamilton-Christchurch from 18 September.
It will be a 5-day-a-week service - and has been widely welcomed in the region, which has not had such flights for 25 years.
Mark Morgan is chief executive of the Waikato Regional Airport.
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