Forum Archive Index - May 2001

["Andrew Dengel" <adengel@clear.net.nz>]

I thought there werent any restrictions on Air NZ to land in Britain??

 

Also Virgin Blue has nothing to do with European operations and Air NZ is a stand alone private company so why should the NZ Govt go into bat for them, I dont think Air NZ has gone into bat for the NZ consumer too often! Bring on the competition!

 

Andrew

----- Original Message -----

From: G Stolwyk

To: sharechat.co.nz

Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 6:49 PM

Subject: Re: Re: [sharechat] Impulse withdraws brand in Ausattn G Stolwyk

 

Phil,

 

Thanks for your clarification!

To carry on from there, it seems to me that Virgin may not necessarily get the go ahead ( Austr-NZ ), now Qantas has got everything sorted out here, including the politically sensitive NZ feeder routes.

 

The Government can now afford to ask for more landing rights in London as was suggested some time ago, I think.

 

And these demands may be too much to overcome by Virgin, and so, the NZ project may not go ahead, after all!

 

No wonder, Qantas had to move fast and the NZ government may not want to make life too difficult for AIR at present!

 

Gerry