Originally Posted by
mad_atta
It's worth noting that NZ's short-haul international routes currently flown by its narrow body fleet are, on average, a fair bit longer than the typical Eurobusiness routes in Europe (obviously there are MANY exceptions to this, but average flight lengths in Europe are generally pretty damn short) plus all regional competitors with business cabins have a real product, so I suspect they feel that would be very uncompetitive. It's a shame, I really liked NZ's narrowbody J product - especially the old 737-300s with their 46" pitch recliners, but the A320s were decent too.
But even a Eurobiz product with decent F&B offerings plus blocked middle and the existing Space+ pitch is a product I would welcome. I almost always fly at mealtimes and it would be nice to have a semi-civilised meal and decent glass of wine rather than the slop usually on offer in Works.
I think they defiantly could of made works deluxe better, and the charged more for it.
It included say the PE meal, and lounge access surely that would of made it more appealing, and maybe even sold more than 2 rows of WD?
Surely they could of served WD the same meal tray the pilots get on the Tasman / Pacific flights? Think even the a320 pilots get this meal tray on domestic too at meal trays l?
if they already are catering for higher quality meal for the pilots l, surely they could just add another 8x to the order. The forward galley oven has plenty of room, it’s just used for crew meals and bread rolls…
Surely you would be even able to sell that product on some domestic routes? Eg AKL-ZQN.