Air New Zealand Dreamliner flight NZ289 touches down in Shanghai after being rejected over weekend New Zealand Herald

An Air New Zealand Dreamliner has touched down in Shanghai after an administrative blunder meant a flight at the weekend had to go back to Auckland.

The provider at the weekend didn't meet Chinese necessities, meaning 275 passengers had their travel plans disrupted leading one commentator to name for reimbursement for the office work "cock up".

Air New Zealand hasn't spoke back to questions these days however said yesterday the difficulty was particular to the aircraft used on the day before today's fligh t.

That aircraft is a five-month-old Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner leased plane. The plane that landed just after midday nowadays on a special substitute provider is over three years vintage.

An airline spokeswoman said the airline changed into confident there would no longer be any in addition problems flying to Shanghai.

About four and 1/2 hours into its flight early on Sunday NZ789 had to show round over the Coral Sea after it became observed it did not have regulatory clearance to land in China.

Passengers had been positioned up for the day at accommodations or on the airport's Strata Lounge before they departed for Shanghai on a special service at 11pm last night time.

A assertion from Air New Zealand the day prior to this stated: "It is everyday method to get a flight plan cleared by using nearby authorities previous to departure and this turned into accomplished on this event and became authorised through Chinese government.

"Unfortunately, it became determined all through the flight that this unique aircraft did no longer, in reality, have the essential allow to land.''

Independent aviation commentator Irene King stated such an incident became tremendously unusual and knew of handiest one more instance of this taking place with an Air New Zealand plane.

She stated the day gone by it was probably that even though the airline would have filed for an aircraft to land, a one-of-a-kind plane become listed to land on the other side - something Chinese authorities would now not have conventional.

"China's very restrictive to submitting applications for landing slots. Normally, the airlines are obsessive with their structures - submitting touchdown s plenty packages days, weeks, months earlier.

"Clearly, there may be been a extreme administrative cock-up for this to take place."

King stated it turned into famous among airways and the aviation global that the Chinese had been "very particular'' and strict approximately their airspace; so it changed into the airline's mistake to make.

"It's just exceptionally uncommon. Basically, it need to not have came about.''

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