Its services reached main centres from Auckland to Dunedin and extended to Gisborne and the West Coast of the South Island.

[1] McGregor died in hospital after the wing tip of his fast Miles monoplane hit the anemometer mast in gusty weather at Rongotai airport just a month after the start of scheduled services.

Clarke's career had been: Wellington manager J J Niven & Co in 1920 followed by a spell in advertising with Goldberg then J Inglis Wright.

[10] The facilities at Rongotai being inadequate it was proposed the service would operate between Auckland, Milson (Palmerston North), Blenheim, Christchurch and Dunedin.

For its Brisbane-Darwin-Singapore service operating the same DH86 aircraft, Qantas received a greater subsidy per mile than proposed for the trunk route.

The board had been directed to take into account the value of the usefulness of all the proposed airways facilities for auxiliary defence purposes.

[12] Union Airways purchased three four-engined De Havilland DH86 airliners which could carry from ten to fourteen passengers together with ample mail and baggage space.

A Miles Falcon single engined monoplane designed to carry a pilot and two passengers was bought in Reading, Berkshire in August for service or, in emergency, air taxi work.

Their names were reported to be Karoro, Kotuku and Korimako At the same time Union Airways let it be known they planned a further service to Australia which they considered a natural development for a shipping company.

Union Airways under their postal contract collected mail from the overnight Limited Express train at Palmerston and took it to the South Island and required no air link to Auckland.

[24][25] Seven days out from Christmas the Auckland Star reported there were between 1,300 and 1,400 New Zealanders in Australia awaiting transport home, most of them servicemen and dependents.

Trains were booked out and Union Airways reported it was unlikely to be able to provide a seat out of Auckland until early February.