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Speaker 1: Reading the New Zealand results yesterday, did you see those?

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Speaker 1: Bit depressing? Even more so was the commentary afterwards. Profit down,

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Speaker 1: demand down, costs on the March. Capacity is still buggered

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Speaker 1: by those engine problems and the real punch in the

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Speaker 1: guts for our national carrier. They won't be back to

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Speaker 1: full capacity for the best part of two more years.

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Speaker 1: Foreurn confirmed that last night, which is sad. It looks

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Speaker 1: like a bit of a wounded, bruised, not in full

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Speaker 1: health national carrier, doesn't it. And there's something about your

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Speaker 1: national carrier that should make you feel a little bit proud.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you've been overseas and you've traveled the

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Speaker 1: world and you've not seen a fellow New Zealander in

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Speaker 1: ages a long time, jumping on board that last leg home,

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Speaker 1: hearing the accent the comfort of Kiwi service makes you

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Speaker 1: feel a bit proud. So you should be proud of

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Speaker 1: your national carrier. Foreun has had a rough time in

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Speaker 1: the job, There's no doubt about that. Border closures, lockdowns.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything worse for the new boss of a

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Speaker 1: global airline? I don't think so. The Rolls Royce, the

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Speaker 1: other engine issues again not really his fault. You can

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Speaker 1: plan around that stuff. But even those plans have had

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Speaker 1: to change because the engine makers there are timelines for

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Speaker 1: the fix it jobs. They've been pushed out. And then

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Speaker 1: there's the prices. All we love to whine about the prices,

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Speaker 1: including me, and I'll get one on record. Return weekend

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Speaker 1: flight from Auckland to Wellington for the middle of next

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Speaker 1: month will cost you close to eight hundred bucks return

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Speaker 1: Auckland Wellington. I mean to be fair, it's only a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks away. Still, let's wine and guess what.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be more of this to come, an

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Speaker 1: extra five percent in the near future of price increases

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Speaker 1: and as forum hits the departure allounge to make way

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Speaker 1: for a new captain of our national treasure, if we'd

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Speaker 1: still call it that. The question is what would or

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Speaker 1: should he have done differently? Look at Quantis, that's a

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Speaker 1: bit of a mess I'd probably take in New Zealand

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Speaker 1: over Quantas right now, For all the faults and all

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Speaker 1: the complaints and all the price hikes, is there anything

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Speaker 1: anyone has suggested that could have fixed these problems while

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Speaker 1: not simultaneously sinking the business or worse, forcing it to

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Speaker 1: go once again. Cap in hand to the government for

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