{"id":611478,"date":"2026-09-25T15:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611478\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:20:11","slug":"virgin-australia-air-new-zealand-propose-expanded-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611478\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Australia, Air New Zealand Propose Expanded Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Virgin Australia, Air New Zealand Propose Expanded Partnership | Aviation Week<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"#main-content\" class=\"visually-hidden focusable\"><br \/>\n      Skip to main content<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__byline\" href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/adrian-schofield\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Schofield<\/a><br \/>\n                    September 25, 2026<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tbit_lax_1119p_1_source_joe_pries.jpg\" alt=\"virgin australia\" class=\"b-lazy  img--landscape \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Joe Pries<\/p>\n<p>  Virgin Australia and Air New Zealand are seeking regulatory approval to significantly expand their existing codesharing arrangements. The two airlines have submitted an application for the new agreement to Australia\u2019s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). If approved, it would allow the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790349611_870_schofield-adrian.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"b-lazy  img author__image \"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/adrian-schofield\" class=\"author--teaser__name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Schofield<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author--teaser__bio\">Adrian is a senior air transport editor for Aviation Week, based in New Zealand. He covers commercial aviation in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>            Subscription Required<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Virgin Australia, Air New Zealand Propose Expanded Partnership is published in Aviation Daily, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN membership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Already a member of AWIN or subscribe to Aviation Daily through your company? <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/user\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Login<\/a>\u00a0with your existing email and password<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Not a member?\u00a0 Learn how to access the market intelligence and data you need to stay abreast of what&#8217;s happening in the air transport community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virgin Australia, Air New Zealand Propose Expanded Partnership | Aviation Week https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Adrian Schofield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-611478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611478","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=611478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}