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Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge.

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Speaker 2: She's gone twenty four away from six o'clock now In

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Speaker 2: New Zealand, Boss Greg Fororan is out. He's resigning. He

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Speaker 2: joined the airline February twenty twenty and he'll be living

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Speaker 2: in October in New Zealand. The chair in New Zealand's

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Speaker 2: chair believes the airline is set up well to continue

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Speaker 2: its positive trajectory and agrees the time is right. Iren

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Speaker 2: King is a former Aviation New Zealand CEO. Good Evening, Irene,

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Speaker 2: Good Evening. How are you.

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Speaker 1: Very good in India at the moment?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Quite fitting to have your traveling Now, how do

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Speaker 2: you think why do you think he's going now?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'd say that, you know, i'd be pretty tired

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Speaker 1: after all all of the events that he's been through.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think it's time for a change

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Speaker 1: in trajectory, change in direction. I think, you know, E

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Speaker 1: News Zealand's really got to focus on its core New

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Speaker 1: Zealand market and I think some of that's been losted lost.

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Speaker 1: The age has gone off.

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Speaker 2: One of the big problems is the Rolls Royce engines

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Speaker 2: and there's nothing I mean, whoever the new chev executive

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Speaker 2: is they can't fix that overnight precisely.

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Speaker 1: And so that's why I say the focus has got

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Speaker 1: to be on restoring confidence consumer confidence in in New

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Speaker 1: Zealand and in their home market. Now, if they don't

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Speaker 1: control that market, then you know, it makes life really challenging,

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Speaker 1: even more challenging than what they've got at the present time.

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Speaker 2: Because we get a lot of feedback here whenever we

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Speaker 2: talk about in New Zealand, it's the delayed flights, or

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Speaker 2: it's the canceled flights, or it's the state of the

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Speaker 2: Cory Lounge. Is that just me or do you get

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Speaker 2: the sense that there's been a bit of a reputation

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Speaker 2: hit here for their line.

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Speaker 1: Look, I think that they really need to refocus on

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Speaker 1: domestic New Zealand. You know that regional route network restructure

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Speaker 1: has not gone down well prices. You know, they are

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Speaker 1: off off the planet and they've got to somehow get

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Speaker 1: that focus back and recapture our hearts and minds. It's

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Speaker 1: not that New Zealanders don't support in New Zealand, they

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Speaker 1: just don't want to pay the money that the support requires.

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Speaker 1: So that means you've got to be very strongly focused

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Speaker 1: on your costs and delivering value for the customer.

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Speaker 2: Irene Thanks to that Irene King, former Aviation in Z's CEO.

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