A discussion on how rising fuel costs are forcing airlines to rethink long-haul routes and flight networks, leading to potential reductions in international services from New Zealand.
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I don't know, and I think that... When I look at New Zealand, we are a small market in the world and we have a lot of long-haul connectivity that connects us up. A lot of it is connecting us, all of it is connecting us from our small market to the larger markets offshore. So we operate these long skinny routes and long skinny routes just are already the most expensive routes to operate anyway. And so now they are even more so because of course that fuel that you need to fly that very long way. way now costs you a lot more. And so those passengers on that aircraft have to make that work and there'll come a point that it may not. And so I think long skinny routes connecting small markets to large markets are sort of logically the most at risk in a high cost environment.
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financially unsustainable under high fuel costs
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