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Air New Zealand Chief Executive Officer Rob Fyfe will make a significant announcement related to the airline’s regional fleet at 1pm Wednesday Auckland time.
Who wants to guess? Last edited by Will H; 18th October 2011 at 10:02 AM. |
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Single type for all the regionals?
Q400, ATR72-600 ? |
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If it's single type then Q400 would make sense to replace the Mount Cook ATRs and fit with the Air Nelson Q300s.
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ATR is the rumour
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Yuck... hopefully not...
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I've flown the Mt Cook ATR-72-500s quite a bit in the last few years, they are fine. True, they aren't as cool as the old Avro 748s but it is an imperfect universe!
![]() NZ isn't very big so you don't really need the 'near-jet' speeds of the Q400. I suspect the operating costs of the ATR may have some bearing on the matter too. We shall see. |
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Given the Q300 is no longer in production I assume these late model Q300s would have a decent resale value which would probably sway the numbers also???
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I agree the ATR on paper seems to suit NZ better (no need for the extra speed, lower CASM), I just wonder if Air NZ might see longer-term synergies with the existing Q300s as the existing ATRs are no spring chickens? Then again as Damian suggests Air NZ may have a trick up their sleeve there too?
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I hear it's 12 ATRs starting from 4Q 2012
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