Air New Zealand purchased part of the Mount Cook Group in the 1980s after Henry Wigley's death,http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzlscant/wigley.htm Rob Kerr increased to 30% on 5 December 1983, then another 47% in October 1985 after gaining approval on 18 July that year; and the remainder on 18 April 1991.Mount Cook became a subsidiaryAir NZ History On 9 December 2019, the airline was merged into the mainline Air New Zealand fleet and ceased to exist.
