{"id":558823,"date":"2026-08-04T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558823\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:18:09","slug":"air-new-zealands-tasman-and-pacific-capacity-outpaces-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558823\/","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand\u2019s Tasman and Pacific capacity outpaces demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Cath O\u2019Brien, Board of Airline Representatives (Barnz) executive director, said that was likely a consequence of Kiwi households having some concerns about the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s certainly a challenge for airlines to attract business in a [tough] economic environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">PLF is the percentage of available seating capacity filled with passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Domestic PLF was up from 77.8% to 80% year-on-year, and long-haul PLF was up slightly from 81.1% to 81.2%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">The airline said overall capacity increased 1.3% in June compared with the prior year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">But its long-haul and domestic available seat kilometres (ASKs) were down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">ASKs are calculated by multiplying total available seats by distance flown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">The airline has had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/companies\/airlines\/air-new-zealand-faces-fresh-jet-fuel-price-spike-all-the-services-it-has-already-cut\/premium\/URW5W7Q725HXFEODWNXEYE6FIA\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/companies\/airlines\/air-new-zealand-faces-fresh-jet-fuel-price-spike-all-the-services-it-has-already-cut\/premium\/URW5W7Q725HXFEODWNXEYE6FIA\/\">fewer flights on several routes<\/a> because of the jump in jet fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">On revenue performance, underlying revenue per ASK improved 2.2% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">The airline said long-haul revenue per ASK rose 5.7% in the year to June 30 compared with the prior financial year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">It said demand for long-haul services was fairly resilient.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Air New Zealand carried 0.3% more passengers on Tasman and Pacific services in June than it did in the same month of last year. Photo \/ Jason Dorday\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Air New Zealand carried 0.3% more passengers on Tasman and Pacific services in June than it did in the same month of last year. Photo \/ Jason Dorday<\/p>\n<p>Cancelled flights<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">The airline said it was improving with regard to cancellations, at least for those within its control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Those amounted to 0.7% of flights, compared to 1.7% in June last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhile total cancellations increased to 3.3% of scheduled flights during June, these were primarily caused by factors outside the airline\u2019s control including severe weather and disruption caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/fire-breaks-out-at-wellington-airport-sending-smoke-over-runway\/3UFDQHKLWZGMHK4TTXDBWJWFYQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/fire-breaks-out-at-wellington-airport-sending-smoke-over-runway\/3UFDQHKLWZGMHK4TTXDBWJWFYQ\/\">the fire at Wellington Airport.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Less reactionary<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">The airline said its June 86% on-time performance was down slightly from May\u2019s record 89.1% but up on 78.3% a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">It said there was a cut in the number of reactionary delays, which happened when a delay to one flight impacted the rest of the day\u2019s schedule. <\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Air NZ said reactionary delays were down by more than 50% on June 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Today\u2019s update will be the last monthly update of this nature before the airline\u2019s annual result on August 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">The airline in May told the sharemarket it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/companies\/airlines\/air-new-zealand-faces-fresh-jet-fuel-price-spike-all-the-services-it-has-already-cut\/premium\/URW5W7Q725HXFEODWNXEYE6FIA\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/companies\/airlines\/air-new-zealand-faces-fresh-jet-fuel-price-spike-all-the-services-it-has-already-cut\/premium\/URW5W7Q725HXFEODWNXEYE6FIA\/\">expected to lose up to $390 million<\/a> this financial year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/john-weekes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/john-weekes\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Weekes<\/a> is a business journalist covering aviation. He also has experience covering consumer affairs, crime, politics and courts.<\/p>\n<p>Stay ahead with the latest market moves, corporate updates, and economic insights by subscribing to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Business newsletter<\/a> \u2013 your essential weekly round-up of all the business news you need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cath O\u2019Brien, Board of Airline Representatives (Barnz) executive director, said that was likely a consequence of Kiwi households&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[68,95,138,12509,4190,17898,13419,809,117,111,139,69,274872,13572,1321,19862,2224,102,2963],"class_list":["post-558823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-air","tag-and","tag-business","tag-capacity","tag-demand","tag-didnt","tag-june","tag-keep","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-outpaces","tag-pacific","tag-services","tag-supply","tag-tasman","tag-with","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558823","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=558823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}