More flights from Air New Zealand

Air New Zealand International is boosting its number of services between New Zealand and the United States, increasing capacity between Auckland and Japan, and expanding its codeshare services to and from Europe.

These are changes to its Northern Summer schedule and are effective from next April.

Capacity between Auckland and Tokyo will increase by 400 seats a week, the Auckland to Los Angeles route will run 10 times a week year round.

On the Pacific, capacity between Auckland and Honolulu will increase by two extra B767-300s to four a week.