Air New Zealand is to cancel around 1100 flights through to the end of next month, affecting around 44,000 passengers.<\/p>\n
The airline earlier this week<\/a> said it had raised prices and was looking at amending its flight schedules in response to the global fuel crisis caused by the Iran war<\/a>. It had also suspended its earnings guidance.<\/p>\n Speaking to RNZ this morning, chief executive Nikhil Ravishankar said the changes were about a 5% reduction in the number of flights it would operate.<\/p>\n During that period, it would operate about 22,000 flights and carry around 1.9 million passengers.<\/p>\n Most of the passengers would be moved onto other flights. The cancellations were focused on off-peak services and were mostly domestic.<\/p>\n It was not looking at cutting routes. <\/p>\n “Route or frequency consolodation is something that we do as a business as usual practice and this is just a version of that. In this case of course it’s very specificly related to optimising fuel costs,” Ravishankar said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand is to cancel around 1100 flights through to the end of next month, affecting around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15656,138,219,5107,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-324666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-air-travel","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-middle-east","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}