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Speaker 1: Tai Aways returns to the country with Auckland Bangkok flight,

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Speaker 1: so this is expected to add about two hundred fifty

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Speaker 1: million dollars a year and visitors spending. Scott Taska is

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Speaker 1: the chief Customer Officer at Auckland Airport and is with.

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Speaker 2: A Scott morning, Good morning mane.

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Speaker 1: I'm still surprised we're getting services back. Is that a thing?

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Speaker 1: And how long will that go on for?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, it's great news that Tailiuwas are returning direct

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Speaker 2: Bangkok to Auckland daily services. This is a much loved

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Speaker 2: airline that Kiwis will be familiar with from the three

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Speaker 2: decades of service to New Zealand prior to twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: and they will provide great connections through Asia, to the

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Speaker 2: subcontinent and to UK Europe. And look, yes, we are

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Speaker 2: still recovering those connections to the world at Auckland Airport.

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Speaker 2: Our international seat capacity, which is the best measure of

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Speaker 2: what the connectivity looks like, is about ninety one percent

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Speaker 2: recovered on twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you see it getting to one hundred? Is

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Speaker 1: there a sense that it will get to one hundred

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Speaker 1: or is that never going to happen? With supply and

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Speaker 1: demand and plane and Boeing and all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so look, New Zealand doesn't have a travel demand problem.

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Speaker 2: Our outbound travel kiwis heading out to the world. We're

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Speaker 2: above twenty nineteen levels of travel, and our international inbound

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Speaker 2: visitation is recovering strongly. But you're right, there is a

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Speaker 2: capacity supply crunch. It's been pretty hard for airlines to

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Speaker 2: get hold of aircraft. You know, in twenty nineteen the

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Speaker 2: two manufacturers delivered over four hundred wide body aircraft. Last

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Speaker 2: year I think they delivered about two hundred and twenty aircraft.

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Speaker 2: So look, we're getting there, and this announcement from Thai

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Speaker 2: Airways absolutely helps close that.

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Speaker 1: App What it does show also is the value of

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Speaker 1: point to point. I mean, if you can go from

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Speaker 1: point A to point B in land and go somewhere

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Speaker 1: on that's valuable and people will buy that, won't they.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look absolutely right. Thailand is a great destination. There's

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Speaker 2: about fifty thousand kiwis that head there a year, so

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Speaker 2: it will make it much easier for us to get there.

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Speaker 2: But of course for ties visiting New Zealand, that direct

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Speaker 2: flight on their airline will make us a more attractive destination.

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Speaker 2: But look this flight, Tyler Waite has a network of

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Speaker 2: fifty six international destinations from Bangkok. This will help to

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Speaker 2: bring more people from the UK, from Germany and from India.

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Speaker 2: All those visitors are high spending. You know, each of

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Speaker 2: those visitors from those countries coming on this flight will

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Speaker 2: spend about five and a half thousand dollars in our economy.

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Speaker 2: Good stuff.

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Speaker 1: That's very good news, Scott. I agree with you. Scott

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Speaker 1: appreciated Scott Tasker, who's the chief customs officer at Auckland Airport.

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