Dunedin services will be cut as\u00a0Air New Zealand is set to cancel around 1100 flights affecting thousands of passengers through until early May.<\/p>\n
Air NZ chief executive Nikhil Ravishankar told\u00a0Morning Report\u00a0between now and the end of April, early May the airline will cancel around 1100 flights.<\/p>\n
That would amount to about a 5 percent reduction in the number of flights it was planning to operate.<\/p>\n
In that period the airline will carry around 1.9 million passengers, so 44,000 passengers will be affected by flight cancellations, he said.<\/p>\n
Most of the passengers will be moved to flights on the same day.<\/p>\n
The Dunedin services affected are:<\/p>\n
Christchurch services reduced by\u00a015x\u00a0rotations (inbound\/outbound)\u00a0which is an\u00a0average 2-3 per week\u00a0Auckland\u00a0services\u00a0reduced by\u00a08x\u00a0rotations, an\u00a0average 1-2 per week\u00a0Wellington services\u00a0reduced by by\u00a09x\u00a0rotations,\u00a0an\u00a0average\u00a01-2 per week\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ravishankar said he has spoken to “all regional mayors” about their concerns regarding regional services and has their support.<\/p>\n
He said the airline was looking at reducing a small number of international services, but said US services are an important link to Europe, particularly while there were disruptions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
Air New Zealand is facing more massive cost pressures, with the conflict in the Middle East increasing the price of jet fuel.<\/p>\n
This week the airline\u00a0suspended its earnings guidance\u00a0and\u00a0increased ticket prices\u00a0to account for the\u00a0rise in fuel costs. Domestic fares will increase by $10, short-haul international by $20 and long-haul by $90.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Qantas and Jetstar also confirmed they were increasing airfares due to a doubling in the cost of aviation fuel.<\/p>\n
Last month, Air NZ announced\u00a0a half-year loss of $40 million\u00a0in the six months ended December, compared to last year’s profit of $106m.<\/p>\n
The critical Hormuz Strait, a shipping route for up to 20 percent of the world’s oil, is\u00a0essentially\u00a0closed due to the conflict in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunedin services will be cut as\u00a0Air New Zealand is set to cancel around 1100 flights affecting thousands of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-324800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324800","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=324800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}