A crowd watch the first Jetstar flight from the Gold Coast to land at Dunedin Airport yesterday. PHOTOS: PETER MCINTOSH
Meeting for a long-awaited McInnes family reunion are grandparents Don and Pam, of Dunedin, flanking son Reid (centre right) and grandsons (from left) Harry, 17, Charlie, 15, and Kasey, 8, all of Queensland.
Minister for the South Island James Meager speaks at the launch.
Dunedin Airport’s chief executive Daniel De Bono.
A cake celebrating the launch of direct flights between the Gold and Dunedin.
The Taieri College kapa haka group performs at yesterday’s ceremony.
Otago Girls’ High School piper Sophie McLellan, 17, welcomes people who landed on the first flight from the Gold Coast to Dunedin yesterday.
International flights made their long-awaited return to Dunedin yesterday, as a Jetstar flight from Gold Coast Airport in Coolangatta, Queensland, touched down, linking the city with our transtasman neighbours. Peter McIntosh headed to the airport.
