Ryan Bridge: Why ComCom's not investigating Air New Zealand

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · May 7, 2025 · 2m · transcript

So, after all the handwringing, the complaints, the stomping of feet, the Commerce Commission's shooting down talk of an investigation into domestic airfares.

Greg Foran and Co. will see this as vindication - validation that, despite the headlines and Consumer NZ's claim the market is quote broken, the reality is their costs have gone up and, surprise surprise, it's expensive to run routes with high fixed costs to small places with few people.

So they conclude doing a market study —which is easy politics, it scratches the itch— won't actually achieve anything.

And they say it won't lead to…