Origin Pacific Airways [SEP] inception
Origin Pacific Airways
Origin Pacific Airways was an airline based in Nelson in New Zealand. Its main base was at Nelson Airport (NSN). It ceased passenger operations on 10 August 2006, and its residual freight operations on 15 September 2006.
History.
History Starting out.
Origin Pacific Airways was established by |Robert Inglis and Nicki Smith in 1996 and started operations in April 1997. Inglis and Smith had previously established Air Nelson which they subsequently sold to Air New Zealand. Mike Pero and a group of Wellington investors
in frequency, this service was replaced by flights to Hamilton, where passengers could connect to other Origin Pacific Airways flights to destinations including Auckland and Wellington. Eventually this service too was cut, but in June 2006, Origin Pacific Airways returned to Tauranga with services to Christchurch. This was the airport's first regular non-stop flight to the South Island, but it ceased two months after its commencement, in August 2006, when Origin Pacific Airways ended its passenger services.
In October 2007, Air New Zealand launched flights