AIR - Air NZ.

[iceman]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12168490

Christopher looks happy...as I suppose he would be after a $4.5m pay day this week selling down some shares the board kindly allotted him.

Is this a Dreamliner with a RR engine or is this one different ?

[Beagle]

Is this a Dreamliner with a RR engine or is this one different ?

This is with the so called new version of that RR engine the ten version. FAA haven't imposed flight restrictions on them. Really hope that version of the engine is durable.

[iceman]

Thanks Beagle. Would definitely be an interesting stopover to/from Europe, once the engines are proven !

[Beagle]

O’Hare reports it made it safely after 16 hours and a bit

Beagle and a few others — Warning as a Kapa Haka is shown

https://twitter.com/fly2ohare/status...78301650845697

Checked flight booking before it left. No seats left in business class. Must have flown those extremely important people up business class for free for that Haka.
Some seats available in economy for about $1,000 for the rest of us.

[Rep]

Checked flight booking before it left. No seats left in business class. Must have flown those extremely important people up business class for free for that Haka.
Some seats available in economy for about $1,000 for the rest of us.

In my experience, most long hauls to US have business class full - Yanks don't like to fly long haul in coach. Every Star Alliance Gold Elites have trouble getting upgrades so probably suggest there's opportunity there (noting Singapore Airlines having no economy on their super long hauls to/from the US) to change the configuration although us plebs out the back pay the Jet A1 and the folk lounging up front are paying the margins...

On another note, Air NZ has made WiFi free on equipped aircraft until the end of February. I'd suggest it will be slow as everyone will be latching onto social media to post FOMO - apparently Air NZ says they have blocked vox but I have already had techie folk tell me that it isn't hard to circumvent their block so the prospect of a long haul with someone blah blah the entire flight beside you makes me happy for Bose noise cancelling headphones and the fact I have no long hauls this summer. I'm going fishing instead.

[winner69]

Checked flight booking before it left. No seats left in business class. Must have flown those extremely important people up business class for free for that Haka.
Some seats available in economy for about $1,000 for the rest of us.

Full of ‘important’ people on a jaunt I reckon ....Kelvin Davis can’t contain himself telling the world about it and that new high flying employee Andrew Kirton is very excited.

[winner69]

In my experience, most long hauls to US have business class full - Yanks don't like to fly long haul in coach. Every Star Alliance Gold Elites have trouble getting upgrades so probably suggest there's opportunity there (noting Singapore Airlines having no economy on their super long hauls to/from the US) to change the configuration although us plebs out the back pay the Jet A1 and the folk lounging up front are paying the margins...

On another note, Air NZ has made WiFi free on equipped aircraft until the end of February. I'd suggest it will be slow as everyone will be latching onto social media to post FOMO - apparently Air NZ says they have blocked vox but I have already had techie folk tell me that it isn't hard to circumvent their block so the prospect of a long haul with someone blah blah the entire flight beside you makes me happy for Bose noise cancelling headphones and the fact I have no long hauls this summer. I'm going fishing instead.

Some commentators reckon AIR having ‘issues’ with their on board wifi so having it free might appease punters .....but go on to say if there is a decent takeup the ‘issues’ might get worse and result in disappointed punters who won’t pay in future.

Then again it might be the best thing since sliced bread

[couta1]

Interesting chart pattern on Air at the moment, is it going to breakout upwards or downwards? I can't tell just yet, anyone else want to take a guess?

[Beagle]

Interesting chart pattern on Air at the moment, is it going to breakout upwards or downwards? I can't tell just yet, anyone else want to take a guess?

I just bought some more...which way do you think I reckon its going Busiest season of the year now...oodles of cash flow for Africa.
600 flights scheduled on one day, their busiest day of the year on Dec 21...probably all nearly full at premium prices.

[kyanar]

I just bought some more...which way do you think I reckon its going Busiest season of the year now...oodles of cash flow for Africa.
600 flights scheduled on one day, their busiest day of the year on Dec 21...probably all nearly full at premium prices.

Premium prices? They were selling flights dirt cheap to us aussie residents around then. $5.5k return in Business, or about $800 return in Economy to the states, and not a lot more to London. Race to the bottom against Qantas, American and United.