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Speaker 1: Right, let's talk about an New Zealand. If I was

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand, I would feel pretty beaten up after

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Speaker 1: the weekend's opinion pieces because, as you know, Bruce Cottrel,

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Speaker 1: who we spoke to earlier in the show, wrote a

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Speaker 1: piece in one newspaper complaining that if Air New Zealand

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Speaker 1: want to charge as much as they do, then they

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Speaker 1: have to do the job better and be on time

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Speaker 1: more often. And then Sam Stubbs wrote a piece in

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Speaker 1: another newspaper telling them to stop overcharging domestic travelers. Now

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Speaker 1: I cannot explain the timing. I can't explain why both

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Speaker 1: those guys wrote harsh pieces about the same airline on

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Speaker 1: the same weekend. But what's weirder about it is that

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Speaker 1: I almost did exactly the same thing. I almost had

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Speaker 1: a bit of a rant about A New Zealand myself

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Speaker 1: this weekend because I had to pull out of an

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Speaker 1: event on account of their ticket prices. What it was is,

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Speaker 1: the husband and I were planning to go to a

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Speaker 1: thing in Wellington, started doing all the organizing, had the

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Speaker 1: went to book the flight, saw the flight prices pretty

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Speaker 1: close to one thousand dollars return per person and I

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Speaker 1: could not justify that. That is ridiculous. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: have a problem, as I've said a thousand times, due

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Speaker 1: with Air New Zealand making as much money as it

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Speaker 1: wont to. I wanted to make money. I'm a shareholder.

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Speaker 1: We all are shareholders through the government. It does have

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Speaker 1: to balance that with customer loyalty, though, because in New

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Speaker 1: Zealand is now so overpriced that I cannot justify using it.

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Speaker 1: For the first time in my working life, I don't

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Speaker 1: have CORU anymore, I cannot justify the expense. And while

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Speaker 1: I have the same problem as Bruce Cottrel, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to fly Jetstar out of loyalty to Air New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: I reckon give it a year. I reckon by this

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Speaker 1: time next year, I'm going to be flying Jetstar. The

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Speaker 1: flight from Auckland to Wellington on Air New Zealand for

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Speaker 1: the event was five hundred dollars per person just one

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Speaker 1: way right Auckland to Wellington five hundred dollars. The same

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Speaker 1: flight on Jetstar at a better time was about one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars. That's in New Zealand's problem right there,

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Speaker 1: they're chasing their customers away. One day they're going to

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Speaker 1: wake up. They don't realize it now, but one day

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Speaker 1: they're going to wake up and they're going to be

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Speaker 1: surprised at how popular Jetstar is, and they're going to

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Speaker 1: regret the fact that heaps of us tried out the

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Speaker 1: Orange Bird and found it's not that bad, and in

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Speaker 1: New Zealand will want us back and struggle to get

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Speaker 1: us back. And maybe the reason that Bruce and Sam

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Speaker 1: and maybe even me criticized Air New Zealand on the

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Speaker 1: same weekend is that we're only saying what everybody's already thinking.

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