Virgin(underarm bowlers division) have released a public statement saying they will not cross the ditch until early November with the exception of limited flights into Queenstown from mid September.
The spreadsheet jockeys who now run Virgin probably sacked all the Kiwi aircrew and now need to do a lengthy cold start on New Zealand operations.
Wonder how long it takes Cullen Airlines and Queer and Nasty Airlines to recognize the duopoly situation this creates?
Could a sand state airline revive their Tasman leg aircrew to fly some of their many aircraft lying around to criss cross the ditch?
Boop boop de do
Marilyn
Do we allow bigotry on this forum now? what an offensive post.
Does not seem to get in the way of him doing a damn fine job of running an airline, though there will be those who disagree.
Most of those are staff and unions. Shareholders are generally quite happy - QANTAS has done a fantastic job of keeping their balance sheet as in check as possible over COVID, and keeping shareholder confidence (and share price!) up.
Makes me wonder if AIR would have fared better if Luxon were still in the pilot's seat.
reads very much like a power play of "you only exist because of us so do what we tell you or else"
also an underlying tone of socialism and not much mention of being a business needing to make a profit - that comes across as secondary to providing a bus service for everyone and their goods and being responsible for everything under the sun and could you please do all that in a capital efficient manner.
Foran must be loving it in socialist NZ! Compare AIR's position to Qantas
reads very much like a power play of "you only exist because of us so do what we tell you or else"
also an underlying tone of socialism and not much mention of being a business needing to make a profit - that comes across as secondary to providing a bus service for everyone and their goods and being responsible for everything under the sun and could you please do all that in a capital efficient manner.
Foran must be loving it in socialist NZ! Compare AIR's position to Qantas
...and reduce emissions while you at it.
“ At the top of every bubble, everyone is convinced it's not yet a bubble.”
Ive just booked a number of return flights to Brisbane for me and family members. I used up the last $1200 of my Air NZ credit, paid for the remaining $3k on my c/card and bought some domestic flights with Airpoints.
I have accommodation booked in Raro for August but haven't booked flights yet. Just need JA to stop politicking about the Pacific bubble so I can confirm travel - which I will also pay for in cash.
While there will be many people using credits to fly to Oz, Im sure Air NZ's bank account will be looking much healthier by Friday.
If you are representative of everyone (I know you won’t be, who knows what it is actually like) and one quarter of transtasman flights is paid for by credits rather than cash, their cash position will worsen by running the flights. Although obviously will see an immediate increase in cash as it is paid up front.
Originally Posted by kyanar
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