Salt Air has sold its successful scheduled North Shore airport/Whangarei/Kerikeri service to Flight Hauraki of Auckland.
Salt Air started the service in 2008 for business commuters and to bring time-strapped tourists quickly into the heart of the north for air and land-based activities.
Passengers are delivered to and from the airport by shuttle bus, and scheduled flights call at Whangarei and Kerikeri.
Chief executive Grant Harnish says he now wants to streamline the operation and concentrate on the tourism-based services.
"The scheduled services only generate only about 20 per cent of our operational income but take 80 per cent of our time to run.