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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Air New Zealand Provides Advanced Airpoints Programme

The new Air New Zealand's Airpoints Programme will benefit atleast one in 5 kiwis as it offers customers with extraordinary privileges and also allows them to accumulate Airpoints Dollars,which can be used to buy any seat on an Air New Zealand flight.In order to give access for customers to earn Airpoints Dollars directly ,the airline has added new banking partners to the system.The initial fresh partner is Kiwibank, who will launch the "Go Fly" MasterCard early on by next month.

The new credit card will enable cardholders to obtain Airpoints Dollars every time they spend, as well as offer a facility for families to share Airpoints Dollars and access special grabaseat flights.Kiwibanks acting CEO Paul Brock stated that this scheme will enable Kiwibank to offer additional value to customers who use this new credit card for their spending.BNZ's GlobalPlus will persist to be a credit card partner, with a variety of extra benefits for customers including the facility to earn status points on all credit card spend for Gold, Platinum and Business card holders.

The launch of new financial partners is due to a series of new customer-led initiatives last year which earned Air New Zealand the Global Loyalty Innovation Award by Airline Business.

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Friday, September 4, 2009

Air New Zealand receives TUANZ award

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.

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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Air New Zealand's First 747-400 Makes Final One-Way Flight

Air New Zealand's first Boeing 747-400, registration ZK-NBS, will depart Auckland for the last time today and fly to the USA where it will be dismantled for parts.

The aircraft will depart at 5.20pm and fly to Los Angeles, stopping briefly so crew can clear customs before continuing on to its final destination in Roswell, New Mexico.

The aircraft arrived in Auckland from Boeing's Seattle factory in December 1989. While at Air New Zealand it has completed more than 11,400 flights, flown over 88,300 hours (that's more than 10 years, or half its life, in the air) and travelled an estimated 80 million kilometres (the equivalent of 100 round trips to the moon or more than 2,000 return trips to London).

For its last flight, the aircraft has had its livery removed as well as all interior furnishings such as seats and cabinetry.

"The final flight of NBS is a sad and very visible example of the affects of the economic downturn on Air New Zealand," says Air New Zealand Group General Manager International Airline Ed Sims.

"We are seeing long-haul demand down more than 10%, reflected in last week's decision to reduce Hong-Kong – London services from daily to five times per week."

"We are very focused on ensuring capacity closely meets demand and are utilising the more fuel-efficient 777 fleet as much as possible to reduce long-haul fuel costs."

(Air New Zealand Press release)

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Friday, June 5, 2009

Air New Zealand's New Westport-Christchurch Service

Air New Zealand is to a launch a new service between Westport and Christchurch.

The service will operate on Monday and Friday mornings and evenings from 6 July and will be operated by Air New Zealand subsidiary Eagle Air utilising a Beech 1900D aircraft. Eagle Air General Manager Grant Kerr said he was pleased to launch the new four times a week service, which would make it quicker and easier for customers travelling between Westport and Christchurch. "We have been evaluating the potential for a direct service between Westport and Christchurch for some time, in response to direct approaches from a number of customers keen to make it a reality," he said.

Mr Kerr said Air New Zealand has been in discussions with energy producer, Solid Energy for nearly four years about potentially operating a service between Christchurch and Westport. Solid Energy's Stockton Opencast Mine, just north of Westport employs about 700 people. A number of company staff from Christchurch regularly travel to the mine, along with other contractors and consultants.

"Solid Energy has committed to supporting the new service and this has certainly given us the confidence to launch," Mr Kerr said.Currently, customers wanting to fly to Westport from Christchurch either have to fly into Westport via Wellington, or fly to Hokitika and drive to Westport. Mr Kerr said the new service would be trialled for six months, with community support ultimately determining its long-term viability.

"We are confident at this stage that we have the customer support to sustain this service, but are looking to the local community to throw its support behind the initiative and make it a commercial success."

Mr Kerr said the service was good news for the region."The people of Westport will be well serviced and have choice in the way they travel with our new service and the Greymouth-Westport-Christchurch passenger service which has recently been launched by Coastair."

Eagle Air operates more than 1100 services a week throughout New Zealand and despite the challenging economic environment, Mr Kerr said the airline was always looking for opportunities to extend its network. Over the past 15 months in response to customer and community demand Eagle Air has also successfully launched direct services between Whakatane-Wellington and Auckland-Masterton.

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