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Speaker 1: And on that subject, regional mayors are worrying after news

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Speaker 1: that Air New Zealand is cutting one one hundred flights

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Speaker 1: because of the spike and the jet fuel prices. No

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Speaker 1: routes themselves have been cut yet, but some will not

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Speaker 1: get as many flights as they do at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Kath O'Brien is the executive director of the Board of

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Speaker 1: Airline Representatives and with US high cat Hi Heather. Now,

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Speaker 1: what's worrying the mayors is the possibility that any flights

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Speaker 1: that are cut will not be restored. Do you think

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Speaker 1: that they are right to be worried?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think what I understand from a New Zealand

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Speaker 2: is that this is a temporary response to what we

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Speaker 2: all hope is a temporary extreme spike and jet fuel prices.

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Speaker 2: So I think that at this stage we're just looking

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Speaker 2: at a temporary response.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Craig's investment, When does it not become a temporary response?

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Speaker 3: Cat Well, I think Shane has similar concerns, right Master

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Speaker 3: Jones has got the same question, and I think you know, unfortunately.

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Speaker 2: Airlines are very familiar with jet fuel allocation when we

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Speaker 2: have jet fuel shortage, and we have responded to those

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Speaker 2: situations in the past recent years, and so I hope

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Speaker 2: that we don't find ourselves in that position, but if

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Speaker 2: we do, you know, there'll be more trouble at.

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Speaker 1: Milton Okay, Greig's investment partner says they can't understand why

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Speaker 1: flights are being cut given that aircraft are eighty five

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Speaker 1: percent full.

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Speaker 2: I think that my understanding is that the flights that

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Speaker 2: have been consolidated, which means that you know, essentially they're

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Speaker 2: moving two into one, that sort of thing off peak services,

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Speaker 2: so they will not be eighty five percent full. And

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Speaker 2: also if they were, you'd have a whole huge number

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Speaker 2: of customers unable to travel because if you try to

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Speaker 2: join two into one and they were both full, then

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Speaker 2: they wouldn't work, right. So I don't think that's the case.

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Speaker 2: I think we're talking about off peak services that are

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Speaker 2: already not particularly well patronized, and then those are being

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Speaker 2: consolidated where they can be to essentially be really efficient

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Speaker 2: with a really expensive product.

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Speaker 1: Is Jetstar do you think likely to do the same

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Speaker 1: thing or not because they have so few flights already.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got a totally different network. In New Zealander

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Speaker 2: is operating a regional network that goes much greater geographic

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Speaker 2: distance to many more ports, and they have a wholly

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Speaker 2: different problem than Jetstar, which is operating trunk services using

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Speaker 2: jets only.

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Speaker 1: Kath, it's good to talk to you always, as Kath O'Brien,

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Speaker 1: Board of Airline Representatives, Executive director. For more from Heather

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