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Leanne Geraghty: Air New Zealand Chief Sales Officer adds 41,000 extra seats to the Pacific in response to proposed G-string ban · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: Heller duples how.
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  Speaker 2: We have twenty past five here the snap great grilling
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  Speaker 2: of the sky into islander looking like chumpsy ain't fooling us.
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  Speaker 2: And there's more of that in. New Zealand has wide
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  Speaker 2: in on the G string at the pool debate, telling
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  Speaker 2: Keywis to forget the new Plymouth Pool in its petition
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  Speaker 2: and fly to the Pacific Islands instead. And while here
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  Speaker 2: we go, they have just conveniently added tens of thousands
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  Speaker 2: of seats this summer. The angerity is in New Zealand's
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  Speaker 2: chief customer and sales officer and with us Alian Hey,
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  Speaker 2: he how are you? I'm well, thank you, But you
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  Speaker 2: are making an assumption that the Pacific Islands are going
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  Speaker 2: to be okay with the old G string, aren't you.
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  Speaker 3: Ah. Look, we're just having a little bit of cheeky
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  Speaker 3: fun and we're not going to try and offend anyone,
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  Speaker 3: but we think it's a great way to highlight all
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  Speaker 3: of the fabulous island destinations we have on the network.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think, I mean, do you think that we
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  Speaker 2: have got the money at the moment to be flying
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  Speaker 2: to the Pacific, given given the situation with the economy,
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  Speaker 2: is there still some money out there?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Well, our demand would suggest that people are still
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  Speaker 3: finding ways to take that trip and have a holiday
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  Speaker 3: and a breakaway. So yeah, look, I think there's still
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  Speaker 3: definitely a desire for people to travel.
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  Speaker 2: Are you guys, choker at the moment?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we've got some pretty heavy loads at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: We're in the middle of the holiday period, so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's plenty of people traveling around.
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  Speaker 2: Are you guys seeing the same thing that House to
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  Speaker 2: Travel is seeing at the moment? Which is that you're getting?
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  Speaker 2: I think it was House to Travel or flight scenes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but either way, one of them is
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  Speaker 2: seeing increased bookings in the school holidays and a decreased
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  Speaker 2: booking during school term.
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  Speaker 3: There's definitely some changes. I don't actually have those statistics
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  Speaker 3: on me at the moment, Heather, but we do see
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  Speaker 3: travel patterns, and I think people really are booking in
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  Speaker 3: line with what they can afford and when they've got
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  Speaker 3: the time available to go away.
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  Speaker 2: Leanne, are you going to the Pacific the summer?
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  Speaker 3: I might make a cheeky trip to the Pacific this summer, Heather, I.
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  Speaker 2: Might packing your G string.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've had four kids, so I'm not thinking anyone's
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  Speaker 3: wanting to see me in a G string. I'm more
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  Speaker 3: of a full piece girl.
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  Speaker 2: Gotta be honest with you, May, I'm with you, Lean
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  Speaker 2: Gerzi in New Zealand, Chief Customer and sales Officer.
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