Contact
Programme Team
The New Southern Sky Programme team stood down on 30 June 2021. To contact the CAA about the New Southern Sky programme please email: - nss@caa.govt.nz
Governance Group
The purpose of the New Southern Sky Governance Group is to provide strategic guidance and oversight of the National Airspace and Air Navigation Plan through New Southern Sky, the implementation programme.
Members of the Governance Group, which is chaired by the CAA, include the Ministry of Transport, the Airways Corporatio and an independent member.
Working Group
The New Southern Sky Working Group (NSSWG) is a cross-agency group comprising representatives of the agencies involved in the NSS programme. The NSSWG, chaired by DCE Aviation Security and Infrastructure, is responsible for providing advice to the programme project leads, and to the NSS Governance Group to enable that group to fulfil its role.
The membership of the Working Group is:
- CAA (Chairman – DCE Aviation Security and Infrastructure)
- Airways Corporation
- Ministry of Transport
- MetService
- Aeropath
- Air New Zealand
- Qantas Group
- Land Information New Zealand
- Airports Association
- Aviation Community Advisory Group
- Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
- New Zealand Aviation Federation
- Ministry for the Environment
- New Zealand Defence Force
- Aviation New Zealand
- IFR Helicopters
- UAV New Zealand
To find out more about the representatives on each of the teams, please scroll down.
Head Office
Location
Level 15, Asteron Centre
55 Featherston
Wellington 6011
Postal
PO Box 3555
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
Phone & Email
+64 4 560 9400
+64 4 569 2024
nss@caa.govt.nz
NSS Governance Group
Katie Bhreatnach joined Airways as General Counsel and Company Secretary in July 2019. Her extensive commercial law experience spans the public and private sectors, in New Zealand, Australia and Ireland.
Before coming to Airways, Katie was global food company Danone's General Counsel for Australia and New Zealand.
She is also a member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors and holds a governance role at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, New Zealand’s second-largest tertiary education provider.
Quentin Hay is a commercial barrister practicing in Wellington, and a legal adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His practice includes infrastructure, utilities, regulation, commercial contracts, financing, merger and acquisition and transactions involving governments. Quentin also has considerable governance experience: currently he is also a trustee of Chamber Music New Zealand and of the Hurricanes Alumni Foundation.
Quentin’s role on the Governance Group is to provide independent governance oversight.
NSS Working Group
Ashok Poduval is currently the CEO of Massey University School of Aviation based in Palmerston North, New Zealand. He has been a training captain with Indian Airlines and Gulf Air on B-737 and A-320 aircraft, and has over 12,500 hours of airline jet flying experience. He holds a current New Zealand Airline Transport Pilot’s Licence, as well as ATP licences from India, Oman and Canada.
Ashok has held various senior management positions in the aviation industry, including Manager Human Factors Program, Head of Human Resources, Corporate Training and Development with Gulf Air, Bahrain, and Director of Flight Operations and Safety Services with IATA based at Montreal. He has written and presented a number of papers on aviation operations, training and safety at various international conferences, and has been on numerous IATA and ICAO technical panels and working groups.
Ashok has tertiary qualifications in business administration and aeronautics, and a Master of Management degree from Massey University. He is the representative on the NSSWG for the Aviation Industry Association (Aviation NZ)
Steve Kelly was born, raised and educated in Auckland. After university he joined the RNZAF and flew as a P3 Orion Navigator and Tactical Coordinator.
Steve emigrated to the United Kingdom in the early 90’s and spent 6 years in London working in various flight planning and flight operations roles with Jeppesen U.K. and Shell Aircraft’s corporate flight department.
Returning to New Zealand in 1997 to a job with Air New Zealand, Steve has been involved with Navigation Services and latterly with Flight Operations Regulatory Affairs.
