The last year had been “horrific” he said, and the business had been “decimated” since Covid-19.
“Just as we got back on our feet along comes our friend in America and they’ve just gone hog wild. In January, fuel was stable … and since then it’s just gone crazy.
“Last year we cut five sectors, and [the] last two years we sold six aircraft … I mean, it’s just, it’s brutal, absolutely brutal. Meanwhile, our fuel supplier is making billions and billions of dollars profit.”
January and February had been really good months for the airline, Crawford said, but now all airlines were having issues.
He said whatever issues small airlines had, the bigger ones would be having it worse.
“[I’m] not sure what’s going to happen next … every morning you wake up and it’s like Russian roulette.
“Everybody is hurting in this country, everybody.”
– RNZ