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Air New Zealand is an international and domestic airline group which provides air passenger and cargo transport services within New Zealand, as well as to and from Australia, the South West Pacific, Asia, North America and the United Kingdom. Air New Zealand also encompasses business units providing engineering and ground handling services. Subsidiaries extend to booking systems, travel wholesaling and retailing services.
Air New Zealand’s friend to the stars, Rico, gained worldwide attention in June when he secured an exclusive interview with Lindsay Lohan on the Skycouch while she was under house arrest.
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Air New Zealand's furry friend to the stars, Rico, has today launched his new series of celebrity YouTube interviews, with David Hasselhoff the first to experience Rico's cheeky interrogation style in the hot seat that is the Air New Zealand Skycouch.
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Air New Zealand has taken top honours for marketing at the 10th annual Airline Strategy Awards in London.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Air New Zealand and the Virgin Australia group of airlines today launched their trans-Tasman alliance, with reciprocal codeshare flights on each other’s trans-Tasman networks and applicable connecting domestic services going on sale for travel from July 26.
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The US Department of Justice has ceased its cargo cartel investigation against Air New Zealand.
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QUEENSTOWN — The New Zealand MetService has advised that volcanic ash is expected at altitudes above 20,000 ft for parts of the lower South Island from tomorrow morning (Wednesday 29 June).
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Air New Zealand is on the hunt for the country’s most promising young leaders to take part in its annual CEO for the Day programme.
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Air New Zealand’s grabaseat is celebrating half a decade of ludicrously low airfares in rock-star style, taking two jumbo jets to Las Vegas with a convoy of more than 700 Kiwis in tow.
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Air New Zealand's furry friend to the stars, Rico, is the talk of the town in Hollywood this week, interviewing several global celebrities including David Hasselhoff, Giuliana Rancic and Lindsay Lohan for a new online series.
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Air New Zealand has for the second year in a row been named the ‘Best Airline Australia / Pacific’ at the prestigious 2011 Skytrax World Airline Awards, in a ceremony held at the Paris Air Show overnight.
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AUCKLAND — Hawaiian Airlines and Air New Zealand Technical Operations have renewed the contract for heavy maintenance of Hawaiian Airlines’ Boeing 767 fleet at Air New Zealand’s Auckland engineering base.
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Air New Zealand is currently operating its standard schedule to all domestic and international ports.
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QUEENSTOWN — Following the latest Metservice forecast, Air New Zealand will recommence services into and out of Queenstown from midday today.
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QUEENSTOWN — Based on current Metservice forecasts, Air New Zealand expects to operate all domestic and trans-Tasman services from tomorrow morning, with the exception of Queenstown.
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Air New Zealand will resume operations in the lower South Island this afternoon following a new forecast from the New Zealand.
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The New Zealand Metservice has advised that low areas of ash down to 10,000ft continue to cover parts of the east coast of the South Island affecting flights into and out of Invercargill, Dunedin and Christchurch only.
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Air New Zealand’s domestic and trans-Tasman flights continue to operate to schedule today by working closely with the Civil Aviation Authority and Metservice to ensure flight paths continue to avoid areas of ash.
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Air New Zealand operated 473 flights and carried more than 26,500 passengers around New Zealand and across the Tasman yesterday.
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AUCKLAND — Investigations are continuing on the Boeing 767-300 aircraft operating as NZ175 yesterday afternoon from Auckland to Perth.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Air New Zealand’s standby fares are back.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Air New Zealand flight NZ175 from Auckland to Perth returned to Auckland this afternoon after the pilot of the Boeing 767-300ER aircraft reported a problem with the left hand engine shortly after the 2.25pm take off.
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AUCKLAND — Air New Zealand flight NZ175 from Auckland to Perth returned to Auckland this afternoon after the pilot of the Boeing 767-300ER aircraft reported a problem with the left hand engine shortly after take off.
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Air New Zealand is slashing $150 off all return journeys from New Zealand to Australia for the next six months in one of its biggest sales.
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The most influential Japanese tourism industry delegation to ever visit New Zealand is in Queenstown today to visit key tourism providers and meet with New Zealand’s Prime Minister, and Minister of Tourism, John Key.
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Air New Zealand will be increasing its international capacity to China and Japan for its upcoming Northern Winter schedule.
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Air New Zealand Ltd (NZSX: AIR) and Virgin Australia Airlines[1] (ASX: VBA) have today announced plans for their new-look joint trans-Tasman network, a key part of their new alliance.
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QUEENSTOWN — Air New Zealand and the Queenstown Community Strategic Assets Group Inc have today withdrawn their cases against Auckland International Airport Limited over its shareholding in Queenstown Airport (QAC).
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Air New Zealand’s Skycouch Economy seat has won the Aviation category in Conde Nast Traveller’s 2011 Innovation and Design Awards.
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Air New Zealand is today launching a specialist Aviation Institute which will provide a comprehensive range of training covering most airline industry roles within a single organisation.
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Air New Zealand today welcomed the decision by the New Zealand Commerce Commission to discontinue proceedings against individual employees of its Cargo business.
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Air New Zealand, has received government approval for its code share agreement with Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates.
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Air New Zealand has appointed Christopher Luxon to the role of Group General Manager International Airline effective May 30 this year.
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Just three days since its launch, Air New Zealand’s new “Fit to Fly” safety video featuring US fitness legend Richard Simmons has now been viewed more than a million times on YouTube.
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Air New Zealand's safety ambassador for its new inflight safety video is US fitness legend Richard Simmons.
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Working with some of the biggest names in the music industry including Dr.
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Air New Zealand’s grabaseat is launching a new reverse auction feature today where the price of flights to fabulous domestic and international destinations will tick down a dollar at a time until it gets so low it’s irresistible.
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Air New Zealand considers media releases today by Qantas and by the Commerce Commission to be misleading and defamatory.
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Imagine you, 40 of your mates, a Q300 plane for a day, and your choice of 26 New Zealand destinations.
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Air New Zealand is continuing to add further capacity into and out of Christchurch to meet high demand, especially for people wishing to leave Christchurch.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Air New Zealand has extended its $50 one way airfares from/to Christchurch anywhere on the Air New Zealand domestic network for booking and travel through until midnight Sunday 27th February.
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Air New Zealand is releasing its half year result today, at a very sad time when the company focus is on the disaster in Christchurch and what we can do to assist.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Air New Zealand is continuing to add additional capacity out of Christchurch to meet the high demand for people wishing to depart the city.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Air New Zealand is adding further capacity into and out of Christchurch this afternoon to meet high demand, especially for people wishing to leave Christchurch.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Air New Zealand will operate a second return Boeing 747 service between Auckland and Christchurch this afternoon to meet the needs of family, friends and emergency services.
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CHRISTCHURCH — All available fares on Air New Zealand domestic services from any point on the domestic network to/from Christchurch for booking and travel through until 8am Friday morning are available for $50 one way.
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Recovering Japanese visitor numbers are prompting Air New Zealand to operate Boeing 747-400 aircraft on the Tokyo route following five years absence.
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Air New Zealand is adding two additional direct services each week between New Zealand and China in response to 20% growth in international visitor numbers from China.
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Poor weather closing in on Scott Base has meant the 104 family members taking part in today’s Erebus remembrance activities in Antarctica will be returning to New Zealand slightly earlier than expected.
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Air New Zealand is launching an online airport taxi booking service that promises to save customers time and money.
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Grabaseat is now working with GrabOne.co.nz to offer savvy travellers great deals on activities to complement their grabaseat holiday.
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One hundred and four family members of those lost in the Erebus tragedy will now travel to Antarctica on a remembrance flight next week.
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Air New Zealand has signed a code share agreement with Etihad Airways providing Air New Zealand customers with flight options to and through the Middle East for the first time.
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BLENHEIM — Engineers are still carrying out an inspection on the Air Nelson Q300 aircraft which made an emergency landing in Blenheim to determine if the aircraft is able to be relocated to their main engineering base at Nelson Airport for further investigation and repair.
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Air New Zealand’s striking new all black A320 aircraft will touch down at Auckland airport for the first time this afternoon, marking the start of a revolution in the airline’s domestic jet service.
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NELSON — Paraparaumu is set to become the 27th domestic airport serviced by Air New Zealand, with its subsidiary Air Nelson beginning scheduled commercial services between Auckland and the Kapiti Coast from Labour Weekend this year.
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Air New Zealand announced last evening that it had acquired a substantial shareholding in Australian-based airline Virgin Blue.
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Air New Zealand has acquired a substantial shareholding in Australian-based airline Virgin Blue.
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Air New Zealand and Virgin Atlantic have signed a code sharing agreement offering more flexibility and choice on routings between the UK and New Zealand for both carriers’ passengers.
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AUCKLAND — Air New Zealand is welcoming news that Guangzhou based China Southern Airlines will begin a new direct service to Auckland early this year.
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Air New Zealand’s new all black A320 aircraft is nearing completion and in a few weeks will make the journey to New Zealand to join the airline’s domestic jet fleet.
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Air New Zealand’s first Boeing 777-300ER aircraft has been delivered in Seattle, USA and will touch down in Auckland on Christmas Eve morning, bringing the Kiwi designed economy Skycouch to New Zealand for the first time.
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Air New Zealand welcomes today’s decision by the New Zealand Minister of Transport to approve the trans Tasman alliance between Air New Zealand and Virgin Blue.
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given approval for the proposed trans-Tasman alliance between Air New Zealand and Virgin Blue.
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Air New Zealand's "Kids at Christmas charity auction” kicks off this week, aiming to raise more than $400,000 for children's charities.
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WEST COAST — In recognition of family and friends wishing to attend the memorial service taking place in Greymouth on Thursday, Air New Zealand has released special single-price airfares for travel to and from Greymouth (Hokitika airport).
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We’ve all done things we wish we hadn’t – now there’s an easy way to put things right. Air New Zealand is teaming up with children’s charity Make-A-Wish® New Zealand to give people a chance to make up for life’s little mistakes and help a great cause.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Air New Zealand today welcomed the arrival of AirAsia X services between Kuala Lumpur and Christchurch.
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Air New Zealand today acknowledged the final report from the Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses (BEA) into the cause of the accident involving an A320 operated by XL Airways of Germany off the coast of France in November 2008.
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) today issued a draft decision denying authorisation for Virgin Blue and Air New Zealand’s application to operate an alliance on Trans-Tasman services.
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Air New Zealand has today introduced four new inflight product options for customers on flights between New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands, while also slashing the cost of lead-in economy fares.
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Air New Zealand is continuing to add significant capacity into its domestic operations, with more than 9,500 additional seats per week available across its regional network and main jet routes.
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Air New Zealand has today reaffirmed itself as one of the world’s top performing airlines, announcing normalised earnings* before taxation of $137 million for the 12 months ended 30 June 2010.
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We jammed a plane full of rugby fans, some crazy Air New Zealand staff and asked some of our All Black friends to lend a hand. After two long days shooting, here's what we came up with.
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Air New Zealand is now calling for formal expressions of interest from families who lost loved ones in the Erebus tragedy to be included in an independently run ballot for this summer’s remembrance flight to Antarctica.
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Air New Zealand has more than tripled the number of charter flights it will be operating from Japan to New Zealand this summer in response to a resurgence in demand from this high spending tourism market.
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Air New Zealand will carry thousands of passengers disrupted by Pacific Blue’s withdrawal of domestic services.
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A planned day-trip to Antarctica for up to 80 family representatives of those lost in the 1979 Erebus tragedy will provide an important opportunity for healing and closure, Air New Zealand Chief Executive Officer Rob Fyfe said today.
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Travellers to and from Queenstown could be spared big hikes in airfares if the local airport broadened its shareholder base.
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Commenting on media speculation, Air New Zealand advises it has not purchased any shares in Virgin Blue.
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WANAKA — Air New Zealand today announced that it will be increasing the number of flights into and out of Wanaka.
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QUEENSTOWN — More than two dozen CEOs of the world’s top airlines will meet in Queenstown this December, following Air New Zealand’s successful pitch to secure the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board meeting in New Zealand.
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Air New Zealand intends to increase domestic jet capacity by a further 4.2% from September, taking the total number of services on its main trunk routes to more than 750 per week.
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Air New Zealand has today unveiled a new kiosk check-in experience for passengers flying to Australia, aimed to halve the time it takes to check-in.
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Air New Zealand will be enabling its new Boeing 777-300 aircraft with mobile phone and data capability, with the first aircraft due for delivery in November this year.
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Air New Zealand will be increasing its international and domestic capacity by 4.9% and 3.8% respectively for its upcoming Northern Winter 2010 schedule.
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Air New Zealand has picked up more global industry accolades overnight, taking out two Skytrax Awards for the Best Airline Australia/Pacific and the Staff Service Excellence Award for the Australia/Pacific region.
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Air New Zealand has been named Best Airline at this year’s 2010 Which? Awards – the UK’s top consumer magazine with awards independently voted by readers.
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Air New Zealand Ltd (NZSX: AIR) and Virgin Blue Airlines Group (ASX: VBA) have today announced their intention to seek regulatory approval to create an alliance on the trans-Tasman.
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Following advice from UK authorities on the opening of airspace in the UK, Air New Zealand provisionally plans to operate in the next 24 hours a total of seven services to and from London, which will begin to clear the backlog of passengers.
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Air New Zealand will be significantly increasing domestic seat capacity due to growing demand and the expected impact of the Rugby World Cup from January next year.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Air New Zealand today announced normalised earnings* before taxation of $96 million for the six month period ended 31 December 2009, an increase of $70 million on the same period last year.
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BLENHEIM — Air New Zealand engineering subsidiary Safe Air in Blenheim is planning to reduce its workforce by around 100 positions.
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Air New Zealand will transform international air travel later this year when it introduces revolutionary, Kiwi designed lie-flat economy and ground breaking premium economy seats, together with enhanced comforts for those wanting the ultimate in luxurious Business Premier travel.
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Luxurious chalk coloured leather premium seating, deep ink colours and mood lighting in all cabins of Air New Zealand’s new Boeing 777-300ER cabins will provide an interiors look more akin to a private jet than a commercial jetliner.
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Air New Zealand is predicting dramatic growth in premium travel, specifically Premium Economy, with its new fleet of Boeing 777-300 aircraft to have 39 per cent more seats in this class than on its 777-200 aircraft and 28 per cent more than on its 747-400 fleet.
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QUEENSTOWN — Air New Zealand will increase trans-Tasman capacity between Australia and Queenstown by a further 20% this coming ski season, taking the total number of direct services to 12 per week.
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Air New Zealand today announced it has engaged Trelise Cooper, one of New Zealand’s leading fashion designers, to assist in the design of the next Air New Zealand uniform.
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Air New Zealand will from July operate direct services between Sydney and the Cook Islands, making it the first airline to operate direct services between the two nations.
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