AIR - Air NZ.

[winner69]

Steve Biddle (@stevebiddle)
16/05/18, 8:51 AM
Singapore Airlines 777-200ER 9V-SVL will be joining the @FlyAirNZ fleet in a few weeks as ZK-OKI while the airline deals with the Dreamliner issues. Will be crewed by NZ crews.

[Benny1]

Steve Biddle (@stevebiddle)
16/05/18, 8:51 AM
Singapore Airlines 777-200ER 9V-SVL will be joining the @FlyAirNZ fleet in a few weeks as ZK-OKI while the airline deals with the Dreamliner issues. Will be crewed by NZ crews.

Should be Ex- Singapore Airlines...Aircraft now owned by Boeing..was a trade-in on a new aircraft apparently.

[Raz]

Travel agent told me but here’s a link anyway

Only took NZHerald a week to get up to speed


https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12051728

and then air has a domestic sale the day before the so called price increases, usual sale price to main cities and Queenstown however the sale prices are ten percent up on last years timed sale, still able to get between the four places from and within around 50$ each way from Christchurch. So you book what you need for the next four months and wonder why Shane jones doesn’t have them on for their price strategies like the public on the oil companies with fuel prices...prices go up however if you book with us ahead and on our so called sales then you get closer to our real commercial retail prices...

[Raz]

Add to that

• a tourist tax from our new gummit,
• reduced immigration (i.e. nobody who wants to work for the tourists anymore),
• increasing hostility of natives against tourist drivers (conveniently ignoring all the home-bread idiots on our roads who only get slapped with wet bus tickets if they kill their fellow road users ...)
• an increasing number of environmental calamities and
• ah yes, and there are still some tourists who don't realize yet that the "clean and green" in our slogans refers to the (chlorinated) tap water ...

Bo

I am sure the tourists will learn and we will solve the tourism problem ; I guess, really - who wants to make money?

Problem is just that it is not so easy to turn the tap on again after we closed it ...

haha that bubble of yours clearly does not extend to witnessing the dangers of driving South Island roads with theses tourists 😂🤗

[BlackPeter]

haha that bubble of yours clearly does not extend to witnessing the dangers of driving South Island roads with theses tourists ����

Clearly not the right thread to discuss the dangers of South Island roads or otherwise (and if you have an answer, we probably should create a separate thread). However - based on my personal experiences - I've seen many more dangerous driving natives on SI roads than tourists (but I agree - this is no statistically relevant sample). Do you have hard data to prove the opposite?

[Beagle]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12051933

I hope Shane Jones is so vigorous in his praise or AIR's expansion as he was vigilante in his approach last time AIR changed their domestic network.
Oh..No hang on a minute...very few of his target market supporters live in Wanaka so we can probably expect another barrage about social inequity in the area's AIR serves and how morally wrong it is that AIR adapt their business model to actually meet demand...I can "hardly wait"

[Zaphod]

Shane's career started too late - his beliefs are more at home in the 1970's and very early 1980's.

[Sideshow Bob]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12051933

I hope Shane Jones is so vigorous in his praise or AIR's expansion as he was vigilante in his approach last time AIR changed their domestic network.
Oh..No hang on a minute...very few of his target market supporters live in Wanaka so we can probably expect another barrage about social inequity in the area's AIR serves and how morally wrong it is that AIR adapt their business model to actually meet demand...I can "hardly wait"

hahaha - I for one aren't in Shane's target market!

Wanaka airport has been leased to Queenstown Airport - 75% local council and 25% Auckland airport.

Growth around here has been silly, so more numbers to support a service. A decent number of people working remotely these days and flying out of Qtown, with good service to AKL but not so good anywhere else. But they need to act now to take pressure off Qtown given predicted future growth, and also issues with night flights.

Understand would need to strengthen runway (?) if went to ATR's etc. But Qtown Airport already owns a couple of tracts of land close to the airport bought a couple of years ago.

In the past, given price, timing and destinations, it wasn't so well supported. Many locals still went over to Qtown, as still much cheaper.

Would work with te right schedule, pricing and aircraft.

[Baa_Baa]

Shane's career started too late - his beliefs are more at home in the 1970's and very early 1980's.

It's an uncomfortable dichotomy, whether the government as majority shareholder enjoy leveraging shrewd business and consequent financial returns to the Crown, or compromise that by leveraging controlling interest for the wider betterment of society that diminishes investor returns in servitude of social conscience.

Must be a terrible job to have, but no pity from me. Still it's a difficult time for investor confidence with these socialist influences backed by the ultimate authority of majority investor, and law maker.

[Jantar]

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Wanaka airport has been leased to Queenstown Airport - 75% local council and 25% Auckland airport. .....

Geographically, Wanaka is a much better site for a large airport than Queenstown. Less affected by low cloud, and a much safer approach from any direction. It also has the advantage that the runway can be lengthened, with only a slight realignment, to take some of the more modern wide bodied aircraft.