Air New Zealand has won the overall Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ) Innovation of the Year Award that occurred at the 2009 TUANZ Innovation Awards.

If there included a theme of the awards, held in partnership with International Data Corporation(IDC) and major sponsor Voco, this year it was that while broadband and telecommunications infrastructure are important, it's the applications which utilize such infrastructure that carry real economic profits.

Air New Zealand was victorious with the "best of the best" award,including the TUANZ Innovation of the Year award, for its ground-breaking electronic domestic boarding solutions, which include its self-service kiosks, RFID ePass token and mPass mobile phone boarding pass.