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Speaker 1: Good day for the Waitekato as the previously announced jet

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Speaker 1: service between Hamilton and christ Church takes off air and

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Speaker 1: Z will run it five days a week, first domestic

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Speaker 1: jet service for a quarter century. Don Good is the

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Speaker 1: Whitekatta Chamber of Comma's Bosses with us morning.

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Speaker 2: How are you this morning? Mike?

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Speaker 1: Very well? Indeed, does it feel like this is going

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Speaker 1: to be impactful or a game changer?

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Speaker 2: It certainly is going to increase the capacity on that

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Speaker 2: that ere, that's for sure, and it will certainly bring

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Speaker 2: christ Edge and a lot closer to the Waitekatto, which

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Speaker 2: is great.

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Speaker 1: Do you think if they build it people will come?

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Speaker 1: Is this about just you know, different planes or is

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Speaker 1: it about actually growing a market?

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Speaker 2: I think they've had excess demand on those routes already

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Speaker 2: and that's why they're putting the aircraft on. They wouldn't

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Speaker 2: do it otherwise.

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Speaker 1: Is there a convenience factor as the schedule changes that

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Speaker 1: you know, easier for people to get from one place

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Speaker 1: to another.

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Speaker 2: Certainly easier to get to christ Hitch by ear from

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Speaker 2: the White Ghatto, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: What about jet Star they're doing some international stuff as well.

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Speaker 1: Is it one of those things where they're going to battle,

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Speaker 1: someone's going to pay the price, and you're going to

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Speaker 1: be back to square one where you think this is sustainable.

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Speaker 2: A couple of things. One, I think certainly this competition,

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Speaker 2: which is a wonderful thing. But I do think they

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Speaker 2: wouldn't have made the decision to put an A through

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Speaker 2: twenty on that route if there wasn't the demand. So

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Speaker 2: I suspect that they've both seen the opportunity and believe

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Speaker 2: that it will grow.

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Speaker 1: And do you think it's a two way demand? People

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Speaker 1: will come to your place and spend I believe so.

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Speaker 2: I think that's already happening. The two economies of Canterbury

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Speaker 2: and the White Kado have a lot in common and complimentary,

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Speaker 2: so I do see that this will grow and grow.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff Don fly Well today is on the inaugural

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Speaker 1: flight Don good the Wekatto Chamber of Commerce CEO. For

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