The Chatham Islands, 800km (430nm) east of the South Island, are finally going to be connected by jet aircraft after an airport upgrading.
For many years, the only aviation link was with the slow and lumbering Bristol Freighters, which operated from Christchurch Airport and landed on an unsealed
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