Air New Zealand Air Points - Air NZ Meal WIndows for Domestic flight

Dear Air NZ experts,

I will head down to New Zealand during the end of July and bid farewell to the excellent Air NZ domestic products.

I want to know how Air NZ windows are for their domestic flights for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner.

I will appreciate any information.

Carfield

Not exactly sure but I know lunch ends at 1:30, and free alcohol is from 4:30-7pm departures on weekdays, and that all flights until October have great service. Times are of departure.

I was talking to an NZ manager yesterday about what the definition of a snack was. He was not sure, but if meals are gone and it is replaced with their morning and afternoon snack, then I will not be too unhappy as you get a really nice facacia (spell?) sandwich.

Mark

Carfield, the NZ domestic timetable has the exact times & definitions for what flights get snacks/meals etc - I'll look it up for you when I get home tonight, unless someone beats me to it.

Koru Flyer, I too am curious to know what the new 'snack' service will be. I completely understand the rationale behind doing away with domestic business class, but it seems to me that it would make sense to retain a reasonable food/bar service on mainline flights - in a one class cabin this would be simpler to provide, and it would ensure some much-needed differentiation from Freedom Air. I don't think business folk will miss business class, but they'll certainly miss getting breakfast on those early morning flights...

OK, here's the gen from the NZ domestic timetable, as promised.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
Meals are provided on domestic services as follows:
(a) Flight numbers 400-699, 1400-1699, and 5850-5899 and with:
- a departure time up to 8.30 am = Breakfast
- a departure time between 8.35am and 11.25am = Snack
- a departure time between 11.30am and 1.30pm & where journey time is 55 minutes or more = Light meal
- a departure time between 11.30am and 1.30pm & where journey time is less than 55 minutes = Snack
- a departure time between 1.35pm and 4.55pm = Snack
- a departure time between 5.00pm and 7.30pm = Dinner
- a departure time from 7.35pm onwards = Snack
(b) Flight numbers 5000-5849 & 5900-5999, where the journey time is 50 minutes or more, and with:
- a departure time up to 8.30am = Breakfast
- a departure time between 8.35am and 4.55pm = Snack
- a departure time from 5.00pm onwards = Dinner</font>

There's some more info there for flights operated by the Saab SF3 aircraft which I haven't included - let me know if it is of interest and I'll add it above.

Hope this helps - and enjoy that great inflight catering while you can http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

(edited to correct a couple of mistakes)

[This message has been edited by mad_atta (edited 06-20-2002).]

Thanks for the detailed information!

I will definitely plan accordingly.

Carfield http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

mad_atta,

This information is fantastic. Is this on the web? Or, did you mean the printed Air NZ domestic timetable?

rdd, it's from the printed timetable - I picked one up last time I passed through WLG airport. Quite an informative little booklet it is too, including seatmaps for all the smaller aircraft which are not on the website.

Let me know if there's any further info you want from it and I'll have a look.