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Speaker 1: Where in the world is Nicol Ravashenka. You've got a

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Speaker 1: feel of it for the New Zealand boss, don't you.

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Speaker 1: He is in the hot seat and he is sweating.

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Speaker 1: If ever there was a poison chealice, that guy is

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Speaker 1: drinking from it. He is glugging it back. He's drowning

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Speaker 1: in it. Poor thing. They've suspended their guidance after the

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Speaker 1: avgas price went nuts doubled on Iran. That's after announcing

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Speaker 1: that loss of sixty million dollars for the half year,

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Speaker 1: and now they're hiking prices apparently this is according to stuff,

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Speaker 1: up to ninety dollars on international fares and reportedly reportedly

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Speaker 1: because they haven't confirmed this yet, looking at cutting some

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Speaker 1: roots as well, looking at cutting some costs. On top

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Speaker 1: of that, you've got David Seymour barking loudly about selling

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Speaker 1: half of you off. His problems and this is the

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Speaker 1: problem with all the New Zealand bosses are financial. The

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Speaker 1: implications very political. You know, it is the national Carrier,

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Speaker 1: after all, it's up there with the PM, it's up

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Speaker 1: there with the all Blacks coach at NZR in terms

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Speaker 1: of profile and criticism in New Zealand. But when the

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Speaker 1: going gets tough, you got to front. If an index

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Speaker 1: update of the kind that we saw yesterday was put

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Speaker 1: out by the CEO of a company not half owned

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Speaker 1: by voters, then you'd probably get away with no public interviews.

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Speaker 1: Talked to some shareholders, but that is not the case

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Speaker 1: for Air New Zealand. I spoke to Greg four him

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Speaker 1: the other day, another Air New Zealand boss who timed

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Speaker 1: his landing into the job quite terribly COVID and thanked

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Speaker 1: him at the end. I said thank you for always

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Speaker 1: because he did. He would always front up to the

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Speaker 1: public as far as I can remember anyway, never really

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Speaker 1: felt irked by it, always front up to the public,

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Speaker 1: always come in for an interview when the going got tough.

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Speaker 1: Over the years, he made himself very available. Didn't really

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Speaker 1: matter whether the news was good or bad. And there

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Speaker 1: was plenty of bad engine issues, prices, COVID travel refunds,

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Speaker 1: remember all that stuff. So whether it was good or bad,

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Speaker 1: Greg was generally there, which begs the question, as the

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Speaker 1: airline faces new headwinds, where in the world is nicol Revashenka.

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