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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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Pre-Sold Ticket Pricing

2 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 10 May 2026 · first seen 18 May 2026

Air New Zealand CEO Nikhil Ravishankar discusses the airline's projected $390 million loss due to rising fuel costs, its flight trimming strategy, and the long-term financial implications of pre-sold tickets amid ongoing economic and geopolitical uncertainty.

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  • Uh not necessarily, no. I mean, what one thing that's worth keeping um uh in mind is the way this crisis has impacted us. Uh you know, one other phenomenon in airlines, which when I say it will sound obvious, but is an important factor is we sell tickets up to a year ahead of when you actually fly. Yeah. Um, and so a lot of the tickets we've sold are well before the crisis. Uh and but we buy fuel on the day, if you will. Um, and so the crisis impacts us even more because we're now flying flights that were priced and sold well before the crisis started. I think you're losing money on. And and we honor those uh prices, of course. Um so when fuel prices start to settle, it'll take us a longer period of time to recover some of those cost shocks that we've had to bear.
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hdpa-drive Government / N-A

long-term cost burden from fixed ticket sales amid volatile fuel

Nikhil Ravishankar: Air New Zealand CEO on the airline expecting a $390 million loss amid ongoing fuel crisis
14 May
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