Originally Posted by
everywhere
Even if every business class seat is occupied with a customer (ie not staff travel), that is still slightly fewer than 250 business class passengers.
If Air New Zealand were a well managed airline, simple solution would be to lease the Strata lounge off the airport and call it the Koru lounge.
Done.
Its not just the Business Class passengers - there are plenty of Gold,Elite,Koru all flying short-haul on Seat Only Fares.
Sometimes on the Tasman it does feel like half of an 77W have access to the lounge in some form.