Air Safaris (New Zealand airline)

Air Safaris
IATA ICAO Call sign
– SRI[1] AIRSAFARI[2]
Founded1970 (1970)
HubsLake Tekapo
Fleet size8
Destinations5 (charter)
HeadquartersLake Tekapo, New Zealand
Key people
  • Tim Rayward (Managing Director)
  • Richard Rayward (CEO)[3]
Websitehttp://www.airsafaris.co.nz/

Air Safaris is a New Zealand scenic flight and air charter company based at the Lake Tekapo Airport located 2.8 km west of the town of Lake Tekapo, off State Highway 8 in the Mackenzie District of New Zealand.[4][5] The airline operates from 5 bases: Tekapo, Franz Josef, Glentanner, Twizel and Mt Cook airports. The company logo is a stylised chamois; these are wild goat-like antelope which inhabits the region of the South Island High Country.

  1. ^ Not an ICAO allocation – issued for domestic use by the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
  2. ^ "Operator Callsigns" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2007. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Air Safaris | Tourism Export Council of New Zealand". Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  4. ^ "AvDocClientList | Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand websiteCaa.govt.nz". Archived from the original on 6 August 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Lake Tekapo Activity - Air Safaris and Services (NZ) Ltd". Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012.