Ryan Bridge: Flying will always be expensive in regional NZ

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Apr 28, 2025 · 2m · transcript

Here we go again with the whinge fest about Air New Zealand's prices.

I get it. I try book the same flights as everybody else and when you're trying to fly some obscure route from this province to province its gets expensive. Quickly.

But here we are again with politicians telling us fibs - telling us they can wave a magic wand and fix all of our problems.

This time is James Meager - going in to bat for the South Island. He says flying shouldn't just be for the rich, the government is going to take action and is talking about underwriting airlines.

Do we want the government underwriting the…