I am excited to inform you that on Tuesday 01 October, Pavlovich Coachlines will purchase the five tour coaches and associated driving staff from Clarks Pacific Coachlines, based in Christchurch**. For 12 months Pavlovich has looked to expand their South Island presence to provide a full nationwide service. Stepping into the Clark’s South Island business provides quality and capacity.

From 01 October we have available seven Christchurch vehicles (3 x 53 seaters, 2 x 49 seaters and 2 x 37 seaters) in addition to our fourteen vehicles in Auckland. The Clarks vehicles have a reputation for immaculate presentation and significantly enhance the overall fleet profile of Pavlovich Coachlines and we welcome your immediate enquiries for bookings.

Over the first week of October we will reroute contact details to our 7 day a week team in Auckland where we will accept all phone calls and process all South Island quotes and bookings from our main office. We are commencing a small rebranding programme on the fleet to identify the coaches under the new owners.
It is an exciting growth opportunity for Pavlovich to provide a more seamless service to customers across New Zealand.

For e-mail queries please contact us at [email protected] or simply click on the 'Get a Quote' link above.

** As a courtesy we would like to remind you that this transaction does not include the Clarks Coachlines business in Northland and Perry and Maama Clark will continue to provide independent services in the North Island.

Kind regards,

Bernard Pavlovich
Chief Executive Officer 
Pavlovich Coachlines 

In July we had a huge amount of satisfaction in delivering the formal transport contract for the World Choir Games here in Auckland.

This event brought together over 10,000 fantastically dedicated singers from all over the world to perform in both community events and competitive events. The City truly was alive with the sound of music!
 

• We ran 524 one way charter movements and 367 return charter trips. A total of 1258 individual one way transfers over 13 days.
  


• We moved 176 different Choirs from more than 30 countries.
  
  
• We picked up from 71 different locations across Auckland.
  
  
• We delivered groups to 78 different locations across Auckland creating a very complex web of origin and destinations.
  
  
• We had over 36,000 pairs of feet board our buses and coaches and sat or stood!
  
  
• We operated no less than 60,000 kms.
  
  
• On the busiest day we operated 53 airport transfers

 
We can’t help ourselves. A huge “shout out” to the whole Pavlovich team who put in a massive effort to deliver this logistical challenge, quite possibly the biggest transport and participant event seen in Auckland since the Commonwealth Games in 1990!

PRESS RELEASE

Auckland’s largest New Zealand owned Coach and Bus Operator, Pavlovich Coachlines Ltd, today hosted the Mayor of Auckland, Phil Goff in officially opening their new transport depot in Westgate, North West Auckland. This 1.2 Hectare site is strategically located only 1400 metres from the planned terminus of the North West Interim Busway currently under construction.
Over three years in planning and construction, the new site provides housing for over 100 buses and coaches and all associated services.
CEO Bernard Pavlovich commented “The impending large scale capital investments by Auckland Transport into the first stages of the long overdue NW Busway also require significant capital investments from their bus operator partners to provide for the buses, drivers and depot facilities to support the long term infrastructure. This extremely important facility will provide an ideal base for the impending Western Express (WX) bus service commencing in 2023 and has been designed to allow for a full transition to Electric Buses to align with Auckland Transport’s decarbonisation goals.”

Did you know? After 21 years Pavlovich Coachlines is getting a brand new, purpose built depot!

​It will have room for all of our public transport fleet as well as the touring coaches when they are not out on the road showing off NZ – around 100 vehicles in total.

​Ground was broken in May 2021 with the current completion date estimated to be around mid-late March 2022.
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