Kate O'Brien: Air New Zealand general domestic manager on the airline introducing domestic jet service to Hamilton

Air New Zealand is bringing domestic jets back to Hamilton, for the first time in 25 years.

Airbus A320 Jets will fly the airline's Hamilton-Christchurch route from September.

It'll add about 25,000 seats a year between the cities.

The airline's general domestic manager, Kate O'Brien, says it's one of their fastest growing regional routes.

"We've had a number of our aircraft out - we're starting to see some of those aircraft come back into the fleet, which means that we can look to grow some of our domestic routes."

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now for the first time in twenty five years, Air
New Zealand is bringing back the jets to Hamilton. The
Airbus A three twenty jets are going to be introduced
to the airlines Hamilton christ Church routes starting in September.
Cat O'Brien is Air New Zealand's General manager of Domestic
and with us. Hey, Kate hi Heaver, what's brought the
same way you guys doing this.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yes, so we're very excited to be reintroducing these domestic
jet services between Hamilton and christ Church. So a couple
of things. This route Hamilton christ Church is one of
our largest and fastest growing regional routes, so we are
keen to grow it and put some more seats into
that market. The other thing that's happening is we have

(00:40):
had a number of our aircraft out with availability issues
and we are really excited that we're starting to see
some of those aircraft come back into the fleet, which
means that we can look to grow some of our
domestic groups.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Now am I am I Maybe I could potentially case
I could be reading too much into this, but I
think it's interesting that you're going to Hamilton instead of Auckland.
When you're having this massive fight with Auckland Airport, is
anything in there?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
No? Who? This actually has been in our plan for
quite a while now to grow the throat and to
ultimately have a jet service in there. As I said,
we have seen really strong growth, so it's in response
to demand, but it is also enabled by these jets
coming back into the fleet.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Fantastic stuff. Hey listen Kate, best of luck with it
and thank you very much appreciate It's Kate of Brian In,
New Zealand's General manager of Domestic. For more from Heather
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