Regions to benefit from AirNZ-Virgin Australia alliance
Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia have revealed the details of their planned alliance.
Regional areas in both New Zealand and Australia should have better connections across the Tasman.
The alliance involves code sharing on Tasman and domestic services, a revenue share agreement and reciprocal loyalty scheme and lounge access arrangements.
The airlines, which are increasing capacity in and out of Wellington by 3.5 percent, said a 14 percent reduction in capacity to Christchurch reflected reduced demand because of the earthquakes in the city.
Air New Zealand will take over operation of the Auckland-Cairns route and frequency will be matched to projected demand.
Capacity on Air New Zealand Auckland-Adelaide services will increase by 16 percent, with a daily service in the peak summer months, and Auckland-Perth services will increase to eight times per week over the summer peak.
Pacific Blue will take up Air New Zealand services between Sydney/Melbourne and Dunedin, operating during the December and January peak.
Air New Zealand will assume all Wellington-Sydney flying and Pacific Blue will assume all Brisbane-Wellington flying.
“Regional areas in Australia and New Zealand will also see significant benefits from the alliance, as the two airlines will offer code share flights on each other’s domestic services as part of connecting Tasman journeys,” Virgin Australia group executive commercial Liz Savage said.
“This will open up regional destinations in both countries like never before, making it easier for regional residents to get across the Tasman and for tourists to access regional destinations in Australia and New Zealand.”
Ian Jarrett
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