Op Ed by Paul Henry: Air NZ is failing us - it needs a new chair, CEO
May 10, 2022, 10:09 pm
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Op Ed by Paul Henry: Air NZ is failing us - it needs a new chair, CEO
what are your thoughts on Air NZ in general regarding their response over COVID times and now bouncing back? Dropped the ball? Failed us? Op Ed by Paul Henry got some coverage today and hits some relevant points I thought!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...6ZL7JHJU54OKA/
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/trave...ed-manner.html
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...6ZL7JHJU54OKA/
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/trave...ed-manner.html
May 10, 2022, 10:53 pm
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Can go flag carrier have extra responsibilities blah blah blah. But legal & contractual requirements that have to do what's in best interests of shareholders not general public.
Haven't the flight Sims & ground school been fully booked for months now? They can't bring back staff faster. Take QF example they are renting cabin crew training space from EK in Dubai to train faster.
Look at NA & Europe etc all airlines are having staffing issues which is affecting number of seats available and thus price. Also the pause on 787 deliveries isn't helping a lot of airlines either.
AirNZ all in all isn't doing better or worse at a high level. Sure individual this may be better or worse but overall it is much of a muchness.
Haven't the flight Sims & ground school been fully booked for months now? They can't bring back staff faster. Take QF example they are renting cabin crew training space from EK in Dubai to train faster.
Look at NA & Europe etc all airlines are having staffing issues which is affecting number of seats available and thus price. Also the pause on 787 deliveries isn't helping a lot of airlines either.
AirNZ all in all isn't doing better or worse at a high level. Sure individual this may be better or worse but overall it is much of a muchness.
May 19, 2022, 1:54 am
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True... but not if he's about to sign off on another aisle-facing herringbone seat as the new product!!
May 19, 2022, 7:46 pm
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I also don't think they can afford to delay the refit any longer given how uncompetitive the product is and given NZ tend to go for a higher fare structure than the competition (going back to the drawing board would add at least another year to things I'd imagine).
This is all a consequence of the decision (2016ish?) to simply replace the 777 cabin with identical seats -- the product was starting to feel dated even then.
I think it was back then Luxton was in cost-reduction mode -- I remember some articles boasting about how they'd saved by changing out the jams in BP to some cheaper brand... an inconsequential change in isolation, but get enough of these cuts it starts to add up.
This is all a consequence of the decision (2016ish?) to simply replace the 777 cabin with identical seats -- the product was starting to feel dated even then.
I think it was back then Luxton was in cost-reduction mode -- I remember some articles boasting about how they'd saved by changing out the jams in BP to some cheaper brand... an inconsequential change in isolation, but get enough of these cuts it starts to add up.