Description

This valuable addition to NZ’s aviation literature tells of the courageous attempt by SPANZ to break the shackles of the Government-owned monopoly on air travel in the country. Innovative as well as adventurous SPANZ provided links to provincial centres formerly either largely ignored or poorly served. The new venture proved popular with small investors and was also supported by the Australian airline Ansett. Although the airline grew to fly to 21 cities and towns and was popular with patrons the end came in 1966 when the company went into receivership, after five years of operations. Richard Waugh has recorded much of NZ’s aviation history in the books he has compiled and edited, of which SPANZ was the sixth and one of the most important. Illustrated with 12 colour photographs, with b/w photographs, maps, documents and cartoons throughout.