Originally Posted by
Air NZ Online
Hi, the reason only the Air NZ operated flights (on Sundays and Tuesdays) are sold on
airnz.co.nz is because we are not yet able to issue an electronic ticket with Air Vanuatu (NF) operated sectors. Every itinerary we sell on
airnz.co.nz is ticketed and emailed instantly, so online we are unable to offer sectors on other airlines (codeshare or not) if interline ET capability is yet to be put in place.
Air NZ in fact has interline ET capability with the large majority of airlines of interest to our customers. For example if you search AKL NOU online, you'll see Air NZ operated flights available 2 days of the week and Air Calin operated flights another two days of the week.
Thanks so much for this information, a very clear response and I can see that this is not an NZ problem but something to do with NF (and as a Vanuatu resident I can understand completely that NF might not be the most proficient codeshare partner that NZ has...). OT, but the main shareholder of Air Vanuatu, the Vanuatu Government, has just dipped into its citizens' retirement fund to the tune of $4 milliion or so to keep the airline flying...
I guess another gripe from here is that myairnz usually doesn't load at all, but that is a national infrastructure/bandwidth issue....