{"id":391997,"date":"2026-04-22T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391997\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:16:12","slug":"air-nz-announces-airpoints-rebranding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391997\/","title":{"rendered":"Air NZ announces Airpoints rebranding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-4lbhh9m_1p2a1820_jpg_abaccd2ad.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Photo: RNZ \/ Nate McKinnon\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: RNZ \/ Nate McKinnon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Susan Edmunds of RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Air New Zealand&#8217;s loyalty programme is getting a rebrand.<\/p>\n<p>The airline said it would be rebranded Koru, although the currency would remain Airpoints dollars and members would continue to earn status points.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to members, Air New Zealand said the programme would be shaped by what members had told it mattered most.<\/p>\n<p>Airpoints has gone through some changes in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Kiwibank and Air New Zealand announced they were cutting ties and Kiwibank would no longer offer an Airpoints credit card.<\/p>\n<p>Kiwibank pointed to increasing regulation of interchange fees, which were the fees paid by the bank that processed a transaction to the card issuer.<\/p>\n<p>MORE TO COME&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ \/ Nate McKinnon Susan Edmunds of RNZ Air New Zealand&#8217;s loyalty programme is getting a rebrand.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-391997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391997","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=391997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}