Forum Archive Index - September 2001

["Ben Dutton" <bendutton@sharechat.co.nz>]

Great discussion so far, really glad to see the piece has generated some comment, thanks for your responses, ryanrite, Snoopy, Ian, Nick and others - great to hear your differing opinions.  We are going to link to all of the forum responses at the end of the article so readers can follow the discussion and hear the other arguments.

 

Just a quick response to ryanrite though, please don't think that I'm excusing the Board of Air New Zealand, Singapore Airlines etc for a minute. because they certainly have a lot to answer for as well (Snoopy wrote some great posts on the Board, Chairman etc a few days ago).  However, the NZ government did stall in its decision making process and, as we have now found out, this dithering has proved almost fatal.  Certainly there are many parties to blame.

 

I look forward to the continued discussion!

 

Best Regards

 

Ben Dutton

 

 

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

From: ryanrite

To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz

Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 6:20 PM

Subject: Re: [sharechat] Air New Zealand

Sorry Ben this is not the making of the govt.

To find them the problem when with out looking at the board of air new come on overpaid puppets of the Singapore air lines playing with us the new zealand tax payers and when it turn to custard they want the new zealand tax payer to bale them out???

WHY

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

From: Ben Dutton

To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz

Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 5:01 PM

Subject: Re: [sharechat] Air New Zealand

Hi Hans,

 

Thanks for your support.  This is something I feel quite strongly about, hence my "opinion" piece.  Here's the link to the story for others that are not on NewsAlert:

 

http://www.sharechat.co.nz/news/scnews/article.php/4b7cdbac

 

Best Regards

 

Ben Dutton

 

 

 

 

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

From: Hans van Beek

To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz

Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 2:51 PM

Subject: [sharechat] Air New Zealand

Just read Ben Dutton's comments on the above disaster, I totally agree with his comments and would suggest

a copy is forwarded to all Australian newspapers it may help to restore some of NZ's credibility in the eyes of

the Australian Public.It will be a long time before the culprits "our Government and the Boards of Air NZ,Brierley 

and Singapore Airlines" can be trusted again. hansvan@ihug .co.nz