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# Faces of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-5/
- Published: 2025-10-22T17:30:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-22T17:30:57.000Z
- Description: When they touched down in Tauranga at 9.40am, they didn’t wait for the next flight. They decided to hire a car and drive the seven-hour trip to Wellington instead.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> When flight NZ5251 left Tauranga Airport at 7.13am on Tuesday, the passengers were probably expecting a bit of a bumpy landing in the capital, where strong northerlies were forecast.  
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> But instead, gale force winds saw them in a holding pattern over Levin, a bit of a tiki tour over Cook Strait, then a return to the runway they’d taken off from some 140 minutes earlier.  
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> On board were four MPs heading to parliament for the final week of the current sitting block: National’s Tom Rutherford and Sam Uffindell, ACT’s Cameron Luxton, and Labour’s Jan Tinetti.  
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> When they touched down in Tauranga at 9.40am, they didn’t wait for the next flight. They decided to hire a car and drive the seven-hour trip to Wellington instead.  
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> “There were no more seats on other flights for that day and limited the next day. I know all our whips were keen for us to get to Wellington,” Tinetti says. “The guys have experienced road trips from Wellington to Tauranga before but I had never experienced that before.”  
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