New Zealand ATC authority reports lowest-ever level of in-flight delays

Airways New Zealand has reported its lowest ever number of inflight delays during the quarter of May, June and July 2014, down 52% on the same period from the previous two years.The 52% decrease in inflight delay minutes was recorded for domestic and international flights into and out of Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and Queenstown – comparing the average 2,764 minutes of delay for May, June and July 2014 to the average monthly minutes from the same quarter in 2012 and 2013.Airways New Zealand attributes the improvement to the integration of Barco’s OSYRIS Arrival Manager (AMAN) tool into Airways’ Collaborative Flow