Current NZ Staff Travel Benefits
Sep 10, 2017, 5:24 am
#2
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: DCA or IAD (originally DUB)
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You don't want to ask your new employer about a benefit, but you're happy to post on a public forum?
What are you most interested in - starting a new, interesting and challenging job or "cheap travel"?
Not sure Air NZ is getting the best end of the bargain here!
Last edited by UAPremExecflyer; Sep 10, 2017 at 5:37 am
Sep 10, 2017, 1:19 pm
#3
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: New Zealand (most of the time)
Programs: Air NZ Elite *G, Honors Gold, IHG Platinum Elite
Posts: 6,114
Unless you love the stress of not knowing even at check-in whether you'll be flying today and if you do that it'll likely be sitting in a middle seat at the back of the plane you'll soon realise cheap staff fares aren't all they're cracked up to be.
Sep 13, 2017, 9:55 pm
#5
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 1
Staff Travel Question
So I am currently crew with another airline, and looking to hop over to AirNZ, however I have family in Aus that I would want to see regularly, so would look at commuting over after Long Haul flights for a couple of days, just wondering if you can confirm how much standby is from AKL - MEL/SYD and at what point after you start can you receive staff travel?
I really want to work for Air New Zealand, but as I have elderly family in both Hamilton and Aus, I would need to find an option that allows me to see them at least once a month, otherwise I might have to look at an Aussie carrier
Thank you in advance for your replies
I really want to work for Air New Zealand, but as I have elderly family in both Hamilton and Aus, I would need to find an option that allows me to see them at least once a month, otherwise I might have to look at an Aussie carrier
Thank you in advance for your replies
Sep 13, 2017, 10:36 pm
#6
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: New Zealand (most of the time)
Programs: Air NZ Elite *G, Honors Gold, IHG Platinum Elite
Posts: 6,114
So I am currently crew with another airline, and looking to hop over to AirNZ, however I have family in Aus that I would want to see regularly, so would look at commuting over after Long Haul flights for a couple of days, just wondering if you can confirm how much standby is from AKL - MEL/SYD and at what point after you start can you receive staff travel?
I really want to work for Air New Zealand, but as I have elderly family in both Hamilton and Aus, I would need to find an option that allows me to see them at least once a month, otherwise I might have to look at an Aussie carrier
Thank you in advance for your replies
I really want to work for Air New Zealand, but as I have elderly family in both Hamilton and Aus, I would need to find an option that allows me to see them at least once a month, otherwise I might have to look at an Aussie carrier
Thank you in advance for your replies
Dec 15, 2017, 3:07 am
#8
Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 367
What he was saying really didn’t make a lot of sense but perhaps it was in fact correct.
Last edited by drajknox; Dec 16, 2017 at 1:43 pm
Dec 15, 2017, 3:51 pm
#9
Join Date: May 2008
Location: MSP
Programs: DL Plat, NZ Elite, QF Plat
Posts: 1,776
Apparently NZ overhauled the entire staff travel program and entitlements this year. Supposed to make it even better overall but don’t know what exactly they did, just that it was being redesigned.
Dec 15, 2017, 6:33 pm
#10
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Auckland, NZ
Programs: AC:E - NZ:G-E - Virgin Australia: G - Hilton:G- AF:blue
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The staff travel policy was upgraded for Air NZ crew. Agreements are not within a specific alliance but between airlines, hence the access to QF and JQ flights, along with AF and others.
Crew are allowed to have a nominee who can use the same benefits and a limited number of "buddy" who can travel with them if they spend time together.
More info about passes are on youtube:
Staff travel tickets are discounted but not free (on Tasman flights, special offers are often cheaper than staff travel) and on a stand by basis(no guarantee to fly).
I am sorry I cannot disclose more info about the program.
Crew are allowed to have a nominee who can use the same benefits and a limited number of "buddy" who can travel with them if they spend time together.
More info about passes are on youtube:
I am sorry I cannot disclose more info about the program.