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Speaker 1: Now for the first time in twenty five years, Air

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Speaker 1: New Zealand is bringing back the jets to Hamilton. The

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Speaker 1: Airbus A three twenty jets are going to be introduced

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Speaker 1: to the airlines Hamilton christ Church routes starting in September.

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Speaker 1: Cat O'Brien is Air New Zealand's General manager of Domestic

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Speaker 1: and with us. Hey, Kate hi Heaver, what's brought the

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Speaker 1: same way you guys doing this.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so we're very excited to be reintroducing these domestic

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Speaker 2: jet services between Hamilton and christ Church. So a couple

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Speaker 2: of things. This route Hamilton christ Church is one of

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Speaker 2: our largest and fastest growing regional routes, so we are

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Speaker 2: keen to grow it and put some more seats into

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Speaker 2: that market. The other thing that's happening is we have

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Speaker 2: had a number of our aircraft out with availability issues

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Speaker 2: and we are really excited that we're starting to see

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Speaker 2: some of those aircraft come back into the fleet, which

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Speaker 2: means that we can look to grow some of our

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Speaker 2: domestic groups.

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Speaker 1: Now am I am I Maybe I could potentially case

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Speaker 1: I could be reading too much into this, but I

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Speaker 1: think it's interesting that you're going to Hamilton instead of Auckland.

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Speaker 1: When you're having this massive fight with Auckland Airport, is

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Speaker 1: anything in there?

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Speaker 2: No? Who? This actually has been in our plan for

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Speaker 2: quite a while now to grow the throat and to

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Speaker 2: ultimately have a jet service in there. As I said,

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Speaker 2: we have seen really strong growth, so it's in response

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Speaker 2: to demand, but it is also enabled by these jets

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Speaker 2: coming back into the fleet.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic stuff. Hey listen Kate, best of luck with it

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Speaker 1: and thank you very much appreciate It's Kate of Brian In,

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Speaker 1: New Zealand's General manager of Domestic. For more from Heather

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