Air New Zealand will maintain its early morning departures from Kerikeri and Whangarei following backlash from the business people and politicians who use the commuter flights.
From October 30, the first plane of the day for Auckland - currently 6.55am - would leave Kerikeri at 6am, not 9.15am as proposed in May.
Whangarei's current 7am service would leave 10 minutes later, not at 7.55am as floated in the same announcement.
But Northland MP Winston Peters said the Kerikeri flight was now "way too inconvenient".
"The airline has failed to take into account that many passengers have to travel from afar to get to the airport," he said.