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So FY2016 are we looking at a 50-100% increase in NPAT?
My stars!!!
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You are the best
It seems Air NZ have learnt little from the Hawaii fiasco last year:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11523594
Broken down plane in Hong Kong. Not enough accommodation found for passengers and rather poor communication from airline.
At least this time passengers are only likely to be stranded for 1 day rather than 3 days.
I accept that it's hard to sort these things out in a foreign city at short notice but this sort of bad PR hurts.
Roger- back from my journeys. Here is what I thought of the aircraft.
Flight 1 - Air NZ to Singapore - a noisy thing that rattled and creaked all the way. A bit of a dunger I reckon
Flight 2 - Singapore Air to London - fantastic flight on a quiet smooth A388. Most impressed
Flight 3 - Virgin to Hong Kong on a b787. Not too bad but if the Dreamliner is the future of the airline travel winner thinks they are over hyped
Flight 4 - Air NZ Hong Kong to Auckland - even noisier and rattled more than the one to Singapore and had old entertainment systems (mine was shocking). Probably the plane stuck in Hong Kong at the moment
So it appears as if Air NZ are using these old dungers to get punters to and from Singapore and Hong Kong for onward flights to Europe. Probably good for shareholders as they must be cash cows but not a great experience.
Next year I think I will look at alternatives to Air NZ and get some decent long haul aircraft. Wonder how many others who don't want to go via America feel this way.
And service etc is not a differentator either - of the 3 airlines this time Singapore first and Virgin / Air NZ 2nd equal. At the end of the day 30 hours to get to London is a necessary evil and service doesn't really matter that much
Air NZ got my money but as an airline a bit disappointing.....so shareholders should feel happy this year.
Hong Kong story in Herald
Tony Carter, the chairman of the Air NZ board, is one of the passengers who spent the night in the terminal.
"He's not very impressed. He's sent very strongly-worded emails to a variety of people at the airline, including the chief executive."
Jeez I wouldn't be sending strongly worded emails to our man Christopher - I would be yelling at him down a phone to get this sorted pronto
I caught that flight the other day ... after a 12 hour flight from London. Wonder how many did that before getting stuck?
It's the second time in two days NZ80 has been delayed, after Thursday night's flight was 8 1/2 hours late in taking off.
NZ Herald
It still looks like a double head and shoulders heading south.