New air service will link wine regions

Wine lovers will likely be able to zip between Hawke’s Bay and Marlborough on a new air service as soon as August. Sounds Air managing director Andrew Crawford said there was a “high likelihood” a service would be up and running between Napier and Blenheim. “Our hands are tremendously full, as you can imagine,” he said, of the carrier’s expansion. It has recently picked up two services which are being dropped by Air New Zealand: a Westport service starting tomorrow, and a Taupo-to-Wellington route starting soon.