Mount Cook Airline is a regional airline based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is wholly-owned by Air New Zealand and operates regional services under the Air New Zealand Link brand, including flights to teh Chatham Islands. Christchurch is a city on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. ... Air New Zealand is a major scheduled passenger airline based in Auckland, New Zealand. ... The Chatham Islands from space. ...

Founded by Sir Henry Wigley with a single Auster, (now preserved at Queenstown), the airline was originally aimed at taking tourists to skifields and glaciers in ski equiped light planes; a role still performed by [{Cessna]]'s and Pilatus Porter's. Auster Autocrat from 1952 For the Roman god of the south wind, see Notus. ... Queenstown is the name of several places in the world including: Queenstown, Ireland is the former name of Cobh, Ireland. ...

The airline expanded into a local network, with Douglas DC-3s, Grumman Widgeons and later Hawker Siddeley 748s. The Douglas DC-3 is a fixed-wing, propeller-driven aircraft which revolutionised air transport in the 1930s and 1940s, and is generally regarded as one of the most significant transport aircraft ever made (also see Boeing 707 and Boeing 747). ... The Grumman G44 Widgeon was a small six-person, twin-engine, amphibious aircraft. ... The Avro 748 was a small short-range turboprop airliner designed by Avro in the late 1950s as a replacement for the now-aged DC-3s then in widespread service as feederliners. ...

The airline's symbol is the Mount Cook Lily, which is on the tails of its fleet.

It was bought by Air New Zealand in the 1980s. Air New Zealand is a major scheduled passenger airline based in Auckland, New Zealand. ...