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Speaker 1: Right, let's talk aviation now. Time is twenty two minutes

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Speaker 1: after five. Westport's losing its only air service. Originally has

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Speaker 1: been running the Wellington Westport route since Soundzier pulled out,

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Speaker 1: but now that's done too. War was the last straw.

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Speaker 1: They're losing five hundred k a year on the route.

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Speaker 1: Iron King Aviation Industry commentation with us this morning, iron

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Speaker 1: good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning here.

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Speaker 1: Surprised, No, not at all.

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Speaker 2: Really, this route's been extremely marginal for as long as

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Speaker 2: I can remember.

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Speaker 1: So what happens now? Will anyone come in? Or that

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Speaker 1: was sort of the last chance alone.

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Speaker 2: I'd say, you know, it might be sustainable for sort

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Speaker 2: of unscheduled casual operations, but for a schedule operation, you know,

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Speaker 2: that's sort of a fixed cost. And yeah, no, I'd

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Speaker 2: say it's going to be very tough to get anyone

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Speaker 2: in there and.

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Speaker 1: House you know, full with the planes.

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Speaker 2: Well, from what I can work out, you know, the

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Speaker 2: weekends were okay, but you know it's a typical problem

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Speaker 2: of midweek and who wants to travel midweek? And so

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Speaker 2: you know, obviously when you get a below about eighty

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Speaker 2: percent load sector on these routes, you start losing a

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Speaker 2: lot of money.

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Speaker 1: Iron Appreciate your time this morning. That's Iron King Aviation Commentator.

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