Air New Zealand has cut more flights for Jul travel, citing the ongoing impact of high jet fuel costs and the need to support better operational efficiencies.
“These consolidations affect around 2% of passengers due to travel across this period,” says an NZ spokesperson.
“We’ve targeted the consolidations to minimise disruption and to ensure that the vast majority of impacted customers can still travel on the same day.”
The schedule changes will be progressively rolled out to the GDS today and will be completed by day’s end, says NZ.
PNRs will be updated with a UN/TK status. Agents are asked to check their queue for affected bookings. Impacted passengers can opt for a refund or credit if the new flight option doesn’t suit.
. . . Routes?
While NZ declined to comment on just which flights have been cut a spokesperson did say it was ‘a mix of services across our route network’, but an industry source believes around 60 short-haul flights, to Australia and the South Pacific, have been cancelled in the latest cuts.
Domestically, MP for Bay of Plenty Tom Rutherford says in a Facebook post that NZ has cut 27 AKL-TRG flights 29 Jun-26 Jul, 12 return TRG–WLG flights and five return TRG-CHC flights. For context, he says there’s still 375 return flights to/from TRG during the period.
