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

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  Speaker 2: For the first time in twenty five years, Air New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand is bringing back the jets to Hamilton. The Airbus
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  Speaker 2: A three twenty jets are going to be introduced to
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  Speaker 2: the airline's Hamilton christ Church routes starting in September. Cato
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  Speaker 2: O'Brien is Air New Zealand's General manager of Domestic and
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  Speaker 2: with us.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Kate, Hi Heather, what's brought the on way?
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  Speaker 2: You guys doing this?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so we're very excited to be reintroducing these domestic
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  Speaker 3: jet services between Hamilton and christ Church. So a couple
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  Speaker 3: of things. This route Hamilton christ Church is one of
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  Speaker 3: our largest and fastest growing regional routes, so we are
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  Speaker 3: keen to grow it and put some more seats into
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  Speaker 3: that market. The other thing that's happening is we have
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  Speaker 3: had a number of our aircraft out with availability issues
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  Speaker 3: and we are really excited that we're starting to see
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  Speaker 3: some of those aircraft come back into the fleet, which
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  Speaker 3: may be that we can look to grow some of
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  Speaker 3: our domestic growths.
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  Speaker 2: Now am I am I maybe I could potentially, Kate,
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  Speaker 2: I could be over reading too much into this, but
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  Speaker 2: I think it's interesting that you're going to Hamilton instead
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  Speaker 2: of Auckland when you're having this massive fight with Auckland Airport.
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  Speaker 2: Is anything in there?
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  Speaker 3: No, This actually has been in our plan for quite
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  Speaker 3: a while now to grow the throat and to ultimately
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  Speaker 3: have a jet service in there. As I said, we
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  Speaker 3: have seen really strong growth, so it's in response to demand,
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  Speaker 3: but it is also enabled by these jets coming back
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  Speaker 3: into the fleet.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic stuff. Hey listen, Kate, best of luck with them
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  Speaker 2: and thank you very much. Appreciate its Kate of Brian in,
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand's General Manager of Domestic.
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