I'm booking as I am still using my credits - and will be for a while yet.
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I received refunds for my international air fares for this year booked last year with AIR - ACKL - COPEN return business class a few weeks ago. Refund took 8 weeks to process from AIR. They are refunding international travel air fares. I will probably book singapore next time but i did enjoy the 787 last time but singapore have the new air bus and might try that next time, 2022.
Thanks W(n) only 30 % local travel down is pretty good. Maybe the government can send everyone in government back and forth for a while and that will prop up the profits, only 60 million a month. Just send all government departments around the country to work desk destinations and that should also prop up the commercial property market.
Get the departments out and about to meet the customers, i mean the to be poor penniless tax payer people because they did not take up Mr O great offer of direct bonds purchases...
just do a BOJ and get MR O to buy bonds direct from AIR... simple..
I got a refund for a Nth American fare while I waited on the phone - took the person around 15min while they reversed all the little bits, taxes etc, for 2 people.
I'm not surprised it took 8 weeks - seemed like a lot of key pressing to unwind it all so multiply that by the numbers wanting refunds ...
Only Beagle could accuse a company of being technically insolvent, burning $100m cash a month and of price gouging in the same day! :D
Not a bad effort for one day. Reminds me of the old Meat Loaf song, "two out of three ain't bad". Leave it for others to judge if Auckland to Hokitika return for $878 is price gouging or not.
It is expensive, however - the small routes have always been expensive. I remember some years ago we had to fly from Christchurch to Gisborne (which is pretty much comparable in terms of distance and the involvement of wee airports). This trip set us back at that time by roughly $700 per person, despite plenty of advance booking time. Christchurch Auckland return was at that time something like $200. I guess these small planes are really dear to operate per passenger and social distancing these days does not make them cheaper.
If you want to save money fly to Christchurch and do the 3 hour trip to Hokitika with a rental car. Not sure I recommend that (unless you like the driving - it is a scenic route through the mountains), but then - you could in that case even pop by at our place :): Let me know (PM) if you want to ...
"Refund took 8 weeks"
better than NO refund...
and im glad my lungs are still ok...
Talk of AIR crashing and being nationalised ...like the old NAC was a bit like this in the paper the other day about a Vickers Viscount skidding off the end of Wellington airport
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-pos...-years-of-news
And more photos here
https://twitter.com/rosspnz/status/1...203907072?s=21
Great thanks winner, all good just quietly hoping I can get some more heartland lower than Snoopy’s fair value $1.18 before the results.
I do like it when my favourites present good value, only question imo is whether they’ll continue the dividend, if so, this is sold down enough and has a nice upside, again imo.
Cheers BAA
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