Air New Zealand – assistance for people with wheelchairs

Air New Zealand has a highly informative page about the special assistance offered to travellers who use wheelchairs. In fact, they have a large section on their website for people who require all sorts of special assistance. But we’ll start with assistance for people with wheelchairs.

You can find all the information you need about check in, get to and from the aircraft and boarding here:
Air New Zealand: Special assistance – wheelchair services

About Air New Zealand in general:

Air New Zealand is an international and domestic airline group which provides air passenger services within New Zealand, as well as to and from Australia, the South West Pacific, Asia, North America and the United Kingdom. Air New Zealand strives to be the customers’ airline of choice when travelling to, from and within New Zealand Indeed, Air New Zealand champion and promote New Zealand and its people, culture and business at home and overseas. Air New Zealand are a member of the Star Alliance group.

As well as providing lots of useful information, they actually seem to want to be helpful. For example, in addition to your wheelchair, you may take an additional chair (for shower or sports) in the cargo compartment at no extra cost.

If you are considering flying with Air New Zealand you should definitely check out their page about assistance for people with wheelchairs.