Mentions of Air New Zealand Limited in New Zealand Parliament debates
Air New Zealand Limited has been mentioned in 210 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Valedictory Statements 5 Oct 2011
Hon GEORGINA TE HEUHEU ... world of politics! Thinking back on that incident reminds me of Graham Henry, All Blacks coach supremo, saying in the Air New Zealand ad: “We can’t have that kind of disruption in the team.” I must say I have admired the willingness of the National ...
General Debate 5 Oct 2011
STUART NASH ... fairer for all. Labour will never ever sell State assets, we will never sell our power companies, we will never sell Air New Zealand, and we will never sell Kiwibank. In New Zealand under this National Government we have seen tax cuts for the very ...
Valedictory Statements 4 Oct 2011
Hon JIM ANDERTON ... King. We have been on a long journey together, and, at the end, are now on the same side again. We have Kiwibank and Air New Zealand to remind us that publicly owned assets can be run successfully by high-quality Public Service and other appointees of ...
Trade Marks Amendment Bill, Copyright Amendment Bill (No 2) - Third Readings
Third Readings 8 Sep 2011
RAHUI KATENE ... but it has no connection to the ancestors. An example of a taonga-derived work could be the koru on the tails of the Air New Zealand planes, similar commercial logos and motifs, and purpose-written waiata for schools and workplaces. The Wai 262 ...
Local Government Borrowing Bill
Second Reading 6 Sep 2011
BRENDON BURNS ...rnment’s agenda. It is stated as being part of the Government’s agenda in respect of the assets that the Crown holds in Air New Zealand and Solid Energy. Of course, there are other assets in the wider public domain, and there are prospects for such ...
DAVID SHEARER ... side about mum and dad investors when National members are talking about flogging off our key electricity assets, Air New Zealand, and things like that. But we know that their shares will end up going offshore, as they have done in every single case ...
General Debate 10 Aug 2011
SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... promising failed right-wing economic policies. Somehow, by selling off four of our asset companies and selling off Air New Zealand, the rest of us will be better off! Two weeks ago the Government released a rich list of New Zealanders. How many ...
Appropriation (2011/12 Estimates) Bill
Imprest Supply Debate 10 Aug 2011
Hon JUDITH COLLINS ... it in the sharemarket? That is a good idea. How about the sharemarket? Let us have a look at some of the companies: Air New Zealand. Oh, that is right; it is partially owned by the New Zealand Government, and it is also partially owned by people who ...
General Debate 3 Aug 2011
STUART NASH ... of New Zealand have two very clear choices. The Government’s plan is to sell State assets, our power companies, Air New Zealand, Kiwibank, etc. The choice is to sell those State assets or keep our assets in New Zealand ownership and have much-needed...
General Debate 22 Jun 2011
SIMON BRIDGES ... Petrocorp, Health Computing Services, Development Finance Corporation, the Post Office, the Shipping Corporation, Air New Zealand, Land Corporation, Rural Banking and Finance Corporation, and Government Printing—the list goes on.
General Debate 22 Jun 2011
Hon Dr WAYNE MAPP ... it is better, frankly, to have private sector ownership. Most of us would agree that that balance already exists with Air New Zealand, and we can see the advantages of that. That is why National is going to go out to the public with that plan. Another ...
Supplementary Estimates - Imprest Supply Debate
Imprest Supply Debate 21 Jun 2011
PHIL TWYFORD ... Government’s big idea is to sell off our most valuable and our best-performing State assets: the energy companies and Air New Zealand. It is sad but true that this kind of thinking is emanating out of National’s brains trust. One can imagine Steven ...
General Debate 15 Jun 2011
Dr JACKIE BLUE ... the mixed-ownership model to our four State-owned energy companies and reduce the Government’s majority share in Air New Zealand. We plan to offer investors shares in Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis, Solid Energy, and Air New Zealand. ...
Westpac New Zealand Bill 2010
Third Reading 15 Jun 2011
DAVID SHEARER ... one of the assets that we New Zealanders own, will be next in the firing line for sale once the power companies, Air New Zealand, and a number of the other assets that are in the firing line at the moment have gone. I come back to this bill, which,...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 14 Jun 2011
Hon TONY RYALL ... There are a number of reasons why the Government is looking at a mixed-ownership model, much like we have with Air New Zealand—a model that was supported by the previous Government—in respect of Meridian Energy and a number of other companies. ...
Hon DAVID PARKER ... New Zealand was settled—every year. In fact, Labour did that when it was in Government. We did that. We bought back Air New Zealand; we did not sell it. We did not run the books of this country so poorly that New Zealand was in the position of having ...
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... model has worked in the past. The honourable Minister for State Owned Enterprises referred to the current state of Air New Zealand, but also Telstra and numerous companies around the world have used the mixed-ownership model effectively. They have ...
Budget Debate 9 Jun 2011
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... privatise the power companies Meridian Energy, Genesis Power, and Mighty River Power, and also to sell the stake in Air New Zealand. I was setting out why Labour thought this was such a short-sighted policy. I listened very carefully and with interest ...
Hon ANNETTE KING ... the cuts that were coming, and they would have to stop complaining about selling our power companies and selling Air New Zealand, because there was no alternative. The poor Government had to do this because it was forced into this position! That ...
Budget Debate 8 Jun 2011
CHARLES CHAUVEL I want to talk about a key aspect of the Budget that concerns me the most. It is the proposal to sell off stakes in Air New Zealand, Meridian Energy, Genesis Energy, Mighty River Power, and Solid Energy.
Budget Debate 7 Jun 2011
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... model to four State-owned energy companies, as well as extending the programme that has already been put in place for Air New Zealand. In the health area—and, obviously, the health portfolio has been well looked after by the Hon Tony Ryall—we are ...
Hon DAVID PARKER ... will sell off the energy companies, half of which are currently owned by the Government, and, similarly, it will sell Air New Zealand. National would have us believe that that approach will lead us to nirvana. On the other hand we have the Labour Party,...
TIM MACINDOE ... energy companies, which the Government has signalled, and the reduction in the Government’s majority shareholding in Air New Zealand in order to enable more of my constituents and those of other members to invest in those important companies, with the ...
Budget Debate 7 Jun 2011
BRENDON BURNS ... track of selling 49 percent of State assets Meridian Energy, Genesis Energy, Mighty River Power, Solid Energy, and Air New Zealand. I put on record my opposition to those sales, and say that in the late 1990s Telecom was sold by the Government for ...
Taxation (Annual Rates and Budget Measures) Bill
Third Reading 20 May 2011
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... they already own. Every New Zealander owns Mighty River Power, Meridian Energy, Genesis Energy, and 80 percent of Air New Zealand. New Zealanders own them already. They do not need to buy them twice, and of course what will happen is that most of ...
CRAIG FOSS ... to unleash the power of State-owned enterprises any more. But if they do not like it, then why did they do it with Air New Zealand?
CRAIG FOSS We inherited from the previous Labour Government a mixed-ownership model for Air New Zealand. Air New Zealand diluted it down when it had to go and get some more capital. Did the Crown stump up? No. It was happy ...
BRENDON BURNS ... major assets currently held by the Crown. We look at Mighty River Power, Meridian Energy, Genesis, Solid Energy, and Air New Zealand as being the principal assets that we hold, and we say it is absolutely essential that those stay in public ownership ...
In Committee 20 May 2011
CRAIG FOSS ... have the opportunity to invest in New Zealand infrastructure, New Zealand energy companies, and a further stake in Air New Zealand, which are solid, secure, and long-term investments.
First Reading 19 May 2011
Hon DAVID PARKER ... those debt figures I quoted for the country are after the sale of the energy State-owned enterprise interests and Air New Zealand interests, so those figures I have as to total net debt are after the family silver has been sold. David Cunliffe ...
Budget Statement - Budget Debate
Budget Debate 19 May 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... to Mighty River Power, Genesis Energy, Solid Energy and Meridian Energy, along with reducing its shareholding in Air New Zealand, starting in 2012.
In all cases the Crown will retain majority ownership.
Auditor Regulation and External Reporting Bill
Second Reading 13 Apr 2011
Hon ANNE TOLLEY ... Zealand Auditor-General is responsible for carrying out several major issuer audits, including the Crown, Kiwibank, Air New Zealand, and the Port of Tauranga. The regime may not be fully credible if the application of the bill to the Auditor-General ...
Ministerial Statements - AMI Insurance—Financial Support Package
AMI Insurance—Financial Support Package 7 Apr 2011
Hon PETER DUNNE ... in terms of its extraordinary impact, is the proper decision that this House made some years ago to bail out Air New Zealand. In that instance, the Government of the day could not stand by and let a critical component of national transport ...
General Debate 6 Apr 2011
Hon TONY RYALL ... years ago? Well, Phil Goff and Annette King sold it. Then they sold the Shipping Corporation of New Zealand and Air New Zealand. Then they sold huge amounts of Landcorp and, goodness gracious, they sold the Rural Bank. Phil Goff and Annette King ...
Hamilton City Council (Parana Park) Land Vesting Bill
In Committee 23 Mar 2011
Hon STEVE CHADWICK ... That is wonderful for the many and not just for those at the top who got a tax cut and who can afford to get on an Air New Zealand flight from Waikato and get around the country. This will be a wonderful asset for families facing incredible cost of ...
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 9 Mar 2011
Hon PHIL GOFF Mr Williamson interjected. He worked for Air New Zealand. National said that selling Air New Zealand would be good for the country. It was run into bankruptcy. Labour learnt ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 10 Feb 2011
PHIL TWYFORD ... finally put to rest the mythology that the private sector is always more efficient. Mr Key even mentioned the case of Air New Zealand, and said that Air New Zealand would not be much more efficient and service-oriented if it were 100 percent owned. Well,...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 9 Feb 2011
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... grandpa, and cousin—every single person in this country owns them. But there was the killer: John Key said that the Air New Zealand model was what we should base our asset ownership on, because that gave us the best of both worlds. But which party ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 8 Feb 2011
Hon PHIL GOFF ... them back. Oh, hang on! We might get them back. I recall being a member of a Labour Government that had to buy back Air New Zealand and New Zealand Rail. Do members remember the National members talking about selling Air New Zealand, and the private ...
Hon Simon Power You sold Air New Zealand.
Hon JIM ANDERTON ... transport system, and it had been wrecked by overseas owners who disinvested and saw it ruined. We had to buy back Air New Zealand because it was privatised into the capable hands of private owners, who sent it bankrupt. We were in danger of not ...
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... hold 35 percent of it, the fourth-biggest company in New Zealand, with a further 9 percent held by institutions. Air New Zealand is 70-odd percent owned by the Government and 26 percent owned by New Zealanders. That is the model that we should be ...
SIMON BRIDGES ... not saying that that is the perfect model, but I would remind members opposite that they were the ones who sold down Air New Zealand.
Hon Trevor Mallard Air New Zealand a successful model as a private-public company—you’re joking.
SIMON BRIDGES Oh, here we go. I ask whether Trevor Mallard is saying that Air New Zealand is not working. Right now, ordinary Kiwis—yes, that is the phrase Jim Anderton does not like: ordinary mum and dad Kiwis—...
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE ... is guaranteed. Kiwi investors will have a preference, be they individuals or investors through KiwiSaver. Air New Zealand has done well with mixed ownership—it has done well—and will continue to do so. Another factor has to be taken into ...
New Zealand Productivity Commission Bill
In Committee 11 Dec 2010
GRANT ROBERTSON ... Mr Young to some of the people who have been involved in it. There are some private sector outfits. I know that Air New Zealand and one or two others have been involved and have really enjoyed their links with the partnership resource centre. Let ...
Motions - Pike River Mine, West Coast—Explosion
Pike River Mine, West Coast—Explosion 23 Nov 2010
Rt Hon JOHN KEY ... to see the offers of support flow in from around the country and the world. Volunteers are working with the families, Air New Zealand has sent in expert staff, and many others are working to assist. Messages of sympathy, support, and compassion have ...
Hon PHIL GOFF ... Victim Support, and others, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, and local and national companies like Air New Zealand that are offering so much help, I thank you for your efforts. To all of those in the local community who have offered ...
Urgent Debates - Resignation of Supreme Court Judge—Justice Wilson
Resignation of Supreme Court Judge—Justice Wilson 9 Nov 2010
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... member of the commercial Bar, and he was a highly regarded company director—including, I recall, on the board of Air New Zealand. Prior to that he was an extremely well-thought-of partner, and a senior partner, in one of New Zealand’s most ...
Airports (Cost Recovery for Processing of International Travellers) Bill
First Reading 16 Sep 2010
CAROL BEAUMONT ... that spot. That scenario is unlikely—I am not sure, but I assume that the international service from Rotorua is Air New Zealand—but let us, for argument’s sake say that a carrier decided to vacate that spot. Clearly, there would be a strong desire ...
Customs and Excise (Joint Border Management Information Sharing and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 10 Dec 2010
Hon DAMIEN O’CONNOR ... Airport. Almost 80 percent of the people coming into this country—[Interruption] That is right; ask Air New Zealand what they think of Auckland International Airport. That is right. Well, Auckland International Airport said that it ...
First Reading 15 Sep 2010
Hon DAMIEN O’CONNOR ... task. The first Kiwi people meet when they arrive in New Zealand is often a customs person. They could have come on Air New Zealand, in which case their contact with New Zealand would have started when they hopped on the plane—not after going through ...
Ministerial Statements - South Canterbury Finance—Receivership and Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme
South Canterbury Finance—Receivership and Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme 8 Sep 2010
Hon PETER DUNNE
... because it was similar in magnitude, was the decision that the previous Labour Government faced over the future of Air New Zealand. A number of questions could have been asked at that time about whether the bail-out was appropriate—[Interruption
Taxation (Annual Rates, Trans-Tasman Savings Portability, KiwiSaver, and Remedial Matters) Bill
In Committee 25 Aug 2010
Hon DAVID PARKER ... the economy was going into recession, so that they were countercyclical. The second thing we did was recapitalise Air New Zealand. We made sure that Air New Zealand was maintained in the ownership of New Zealand. Who opposed that? Does anyone ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 27 Jul 2010
MOANA MACKEY ... basement prices in the first place, but that was the position that we ended up in. We can look at the example of Air New Zealand, and of many of our State-owned enterprises—the list goes on and on. New Zealanders want to know, and the Opposition ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 29 Jun 2010
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... evidence for that. It is perfectly possible for companies that are State-owned to perform well. National should ask Air New Zealand about that. Air New Zealand has performed well as a Crown entity under State ownership. So has Meridian Energy; so has ...
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... to expose the Government’s somewhat ironic position on that matter. I will also comment briefly on the example of Air New Zealand, used by John Palmer as the best way to structure ownership so that we get the best of both worlds. But he failed to ...
Civil Aviation (Cape Town Convention and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
First Reading 23 Jun 2010
Hon NATHAN GUY ... administrator. It is estimated that the financial savings over the next six years to the aviation industry, including Air New Zealand, could range from $18 million for savings in export credit guarantees to as much as a whopping $325 million in reduced ...
First Reading 23 Jun 2010
DARIEN FENTON ... members do not believe there is any room for drug and alcohol use among pilots. I do have to reflect, though, that Air New Zealand has had monitoring systems in place for many years, and it was quite aggrieved at the suggestion that it had not. In ...
Second Reading 23 Jun 2010
DARIEN FENTON
... community, so it is very sensible for us to be part of this convention.
I take the opportunity to congratulate Air New Zealand, our national airline, on its very high standards and on its many awards, including the prestigious Air Transport World
Third Reading 23 Jun 2010
Hon STEVEN JOYCE ... is worth repeating that the estimated financial savings over the next 6 years to the aviation industry, including to Air New Zealand, could range from $18 million for savings in export credit guarantees to a figure as high as $325 million in reduced ...
DARIEN FENTON ... stakeholders. It is interesting to go through them. There was a variety of views to start with on this bill. Air New Zealand, of course, first proposed consideration of accession, and as a group of companies continues to support accession. I am ...
DARIEN FENTON ... for the people of New Zealand, and it is a very high-quality, high-standard airline. The 8,000 workers who work for Air New Zealand do a fantastic job. Airwork (NZ) Ltd supports accession to the convention. The Qantas Group is no longer here, but ...
GARETH HUGHES ... Bill, which is still on the Order Paper. It was introduced by my colleague and predecessor Jeanette Fitzsimons. Air New Zealand has been using atrophy in its air fleets as a biofuel alternative to kerosene. I think this is something that needs ...
Budget Debate 27 May 2010
STUART NASH ... chief executive of Fonterra, Andrew Ferrier, will get a cool $197,000 extra a year; the chief executive officer of Air New Zealand, Rob Fyfe, will get about $120,000 extra per year; and the chief executive of Contact Energy, David Baldwin, will get ...
Budget Statement - Budget Debate
Budget Debate 20 May 2010
Dr RUSSEL NORMAN ... Mark my words: John Key will use Government debt to justify a “For Sale” sign over our State-owned assets, such as Air New Zealand, Television New Zealand, Solid Energy, Meridian Energy, Genesis, New Zealand Post, and the Accident Compensation ...
General Debate 9 Dec 2009
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... where competition is actual or feasible are privatised. Well, that one worked really well for the railways and Air New Zealand, did it not? On “Planet Brash” water is not a public good; it is a tradable commodity to be hocked off, along with ...
Shop Trading Hours Act 1990 Repeal (Easter Sunday Local Choice) Amendment Bill
First Reading 9 Dec 2009
TODD McCLAY ... Tasman when we welcome our first scheduled flight from Sydney. This is exciting for Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty. Air New Zealand will bring Australians to our city twice each week. Many more Australians will visit us, and our Easter weekend will ...
Motions - Pacific Islands—Tsunami
Pacific Islands—Tsunami 13 Oct 2009
Hon JOHN KEY ... that have leaped into action, and the thousands of New Zealanders who have generously donated. I also thank Air New Zealand for its support of aid efforts since the tsunami. New Zealand is providing a lot of help on the ground. I thank our ...
Taxation (International Taxation, Life Insurance, and Remedial Matters) Bill
Third Reading 17 Sep 2009
AARON GILMORE ... will change. That will mean that those companies that currently account for loyalty regimes, such as our Fly Buys and Air New Zealand points, will have a much better situation and a lot less cost in terms of administering their schemes. We are a ...
Inquiries Bill
First Reading 28 Jul 2009
LOUISE UPSTON ... whole range of examples of inquiries. The one that stood out for me was the Erebus royal commission, which was about Air New Zealand and headed by Justice Mahon. That one stood out for me, of all the list of inquiries I looked into. The Inquiries ...
General Debate 22 Jul 2009
Hon PHIL GOFF ... So we know where Mr English is on this issue as well. I am proud that the previous Labour Government brought Air New Zealand back into the public sector. It is now run efficiently and profitably as a company with a majority public shareholding, ...
Budget Debate 3 Jun 2009
Hon RUTH DYSON ... we knew there would be, which New Zealanders can now see coming into effect. In fact, just the day after the Budget, Air New Zealand—close colleagues of and advisers to the Prime Minister—said it would cut 80 jobs because of a lack of support from the ...
KELVIN DAVIS ... We are in danger of building a $50 million white elephant that no one knows about internationally, and with Air New Zealand’s recent cuts to a number of international routes, very few people will be able to get to it, in any case. The tourism ...
Taxation (Budget Tax Measures) Bill
Third Reading 29 May 2009
CHRIS TREMAIN I am looking forward to Hawke’s Bay climbing the ladder once again and getting to the top of the Air New Zealand Cup competition. I know that is something that Mr Nash on the other side of the House will take on, and we will be in ...
General Debate 6 May 2009
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... to get to the figure of $2.77 billion. I would not be surprised if National has added in the cost of buying back Air New Zealand in 2002 to the cost of the Waterview tunnels—anything goes. We find out that the extension to State Highway 16 has been ...
Ministerial Statements - Swine Flu—New Zealand Response
Swine Flu—New Zealand Response 28 Apr 2009
Hon TONY RYALL ... here in New Zealand. As has been said, this is a time for concern and caution, not alarm. On Saturday morning Air New Zealand flight NZ1 arrived in Auckland from Los Angeles at 5 a.m. On board was a school group from Rangitoto College travelling ...
Privacy (Cross-border Information) Amendment Bill
First Reading 1 Apr 2009
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... on airline counters after the law was originally passed in 1993. I remember seeing this sign on the stand outside the Air New Zealand counter as I went up to buy my airline ticket or to confirm my booking. The sign said that the airline would not give ...
Taxation (Business Tax Measures) Bill
Second Reading 12 Mar 2009
BRENDON BURNS ... on those who need them and that discretionary spenders get them. It is not just Labour that is advocating that; Air New Zealand’s chief executive, Rob Fyfe, got it right when he said that this crisis is so big that “all the bets are off … We need ...
General Debate 4 Mar 2009
Hon PHIL GOFF ... and take on board the ideas that were expressed. I have great respect for Rob Fyfe, the chief executive officer of Air New Zealand. I have huge respect for Stephen Tindall. Those two prominent members of the summit said that there is one way that the ...
Wanganui District Council (Prohibition of Gang Insignia) Bill
Second Reading 4 Mar 2009
METIRIA TUREI ... pop stars, wear Māori tattoos as a symbol of their recognition of the importance of tā moko as a sacred art form. Air New Zealand uses those kinds of cultural art forms as its insignia. It is its way of identifying itself as being uniquely New ...
DAVID GARRETT ... and a German helmet. These are the sorts of tattoos we are talking about. They are not the koru on the planes of Air New Zealand, but deliberately intimidating tattoos that are designed to put people off and to frighten them. I am rising to speak ...
Electricity (Renewable Preference) Repeal Bill
Third Reading 18 Dec 2008
CHRIS HIPKINS ... to protect that industry or anything to enhance our reputation. The UK departure tax will have a big impact on Air New Zealand, but Government members have made no mention of that. They are sitting there quietly, intently reading their papers all ...
Adjournment - Sittings of the House
Sittings of the House 18 Dec 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... they ought to be. New Zealand is the world champion in rugby league. And we had the almost-win by Wellington in the Air New Zealand Cup. That comment was especially for Ruth Dyson. Barack Obama is the US President-Elect, and he has brought hope that ...
Standing Orders - Sessional
Sessional 18 Dec 2008
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE I seek leave for the Abortion Supervisory Committee, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and Air New Zealand Ltd to be public organisations for the purposes of the Standing Orders.
Taxation (Urgent Measures and Annual Rates) Bill
First Reading 9 Dec 2008
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... that invested by the previous National Government. That is not to mention the buy-backs of corporate failure, like Air New Zealand and KiwiRail, or promoting a New Zealand - owned Kiwibank. National knows that things do not look good ....
Reinstatement of Business 9 Dec 2008
Air New Zealand Limited
Air New Zealand Limited
Address in Reply 9 Dec 2008
Hon PHIL GOFF ... to Mr Key that among the other missed opportunities must have been, of course, the rescuing of our national airline. Air New Zealand was bankrupted by the private sector board that National put in charge of it. It is now a thriving and viable national ...
Barack Obama—Election as President of the United States - Air New Zealand—Airbus Crash, France
Air New Zealand—Airbus Crash, France 9 Dec 2008
Hon JOHN KEY ... Murray White, Michael Gyles, Noel Marsh, and Jeremy Cook, and that it acknowledges the excellent work undertaken by Air New Zealand and the French authorities in the post-crash investigation and recovery process. The tragedy off the coast of France ...
Hon PHIL GOFF ... Party, I would like to express our sympathy and condolences to the family and friends of all those who died in the Air New Zealand Airbus A320 crash off the coast of southern France. Our hearts go out to the families of the Air New Zealand crew, of ...
Hon RODNEY HIDE ... should also pay our respects to. I think that it is proper, with the other parties, to say that the leadership of Air New Zealand, and in particular of chief executive Rob Fyfe, has been outstanding. The colleagues and the crew at Air New Zealand ...
Hon TARIANA TURIA ... etched in our memories forever and a day, and a very sad day in the life of our nation, when we take into account an Air New Zealand flight crash on Mount Erebus 29 years ago, killing 257 people on board, and now this fatal crash of the Airbus in the ...
Hon PETER DUNNE ... in expressing deep sympathy to the families, the friends, and the work colleagues of all who died in the tragic Air New Zealand crash just offshore from Perpignan. I am loath to draw too many comparisons with events at Erebus 29 years ago, not ...
Valedictories 25 Sep 2008
Hon PAUL SWAIN ... myself on a job thoroughly well done. I had been the Minister of Transport for only a couple of weeks when bits of Air New Zealand planes fell off and landed in South Auckland. I was disturbed to hear from an official that the bits were probably not ...
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... think. During my term as Minister of Transport I faced some tough times. From memory Ansett in Australia collapsed, Air New Zealand and Qantas were in severe trouble here, and our railways were broke and broken. In the House, in the midst of all this ...
Hon DAVID BENSON-POPE ... for putting up with it all and even delivering leaflets occasionally. We are coming up to an election. We again own Air New Zealand, the rail track, the rail corridor—the whole operation—and a world-leading accident compensation system that is not ...
Public Transport Management Bill
Third Reading 11 Sep 2008
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... Lee would love to go back. He was unable to convince the Government this time, although now that it has bought back Air New Zealand and KiwiRail, who knows? Maybe the bus companies are next on the agenda to be bought back and nationalised.
Third Readings 24 Jul 2008
MARTIN GALLAGHER ... of groups, including the Council of Trade Unions, the Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand, Federated Farmers, Air New Zealand, Fonterra, the Hospitality Standards Institute, Ngāi Tahu, Meat and Wool New Zealand, the National Distribution Union, ...
... Mr Assistant Speaker, and to us all, the House. Last week, tourism Minister Damien O’Connor was heaping praises upon Air New Zealand as it launched the first non-stop service between Auckland and Beijing. “This very important long-term Chinese market” ...
Agriculture
Accident Compensation—Agriculture and Forestry 23 Jul 2008
Hon JIM ANDERTON ... that anything else owned by the people of New Zealand and not a State-owned enterprise would be sold, including Air New Zealand, Television New Zealand, the Superannuation Fund, the roads, the hospitals, and even the schools.
New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement Bill
In Committee 23 Jul 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... is supported by the Council of Trade Unions, the Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand, Federated Farmers, Air New Zealand, Fonterra, the Hospitality Standards Institute, Ngāi Tahu, Meat and Wool New Zealand, the National Distribution Union, ...
Second Reading 22 Jul 2008
MARTIN GALLAGHER ... good news.” I will give a final quote, in terms of quoting from prominent people in the business community. Air New Zealand chief executive Rob Fyfe said: “Having spent the last three days here with leaders from across the New Zealand business ...
Maori Affairs
Māori Language Strategy—Resources and Priorities 22 Jul 2008
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA ... Māori Language Week. Some excellent things are being supported by this Government, by iwi, and by corporates such as Air New Zealand. Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori last night launched I-Papakupu, the Internet version of the monolingual Māori language ...
ACC
Accident Compensation—Levy 22 Jul 2008
Hon Jim Anderton ... is possible that that future Government could sell assets that are not State-owned enterprises, including ACC, TVNZ, Air New Zealand, the roads, the schools, and the hospitals of New Zealand?
Supplementary Estimates - Imprest Supply Debate
Imprest Supply Debate 24 Jun 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... National members on the buy-back of rail. They absolutely opposed the buy-back of rail. They opposed the buy-back of Air New Zealand. They said it was a dismal failure, it would not work, and it would be bad for New Zealand. Air New Zealand is ...
Budget Debate 28 May 2008
Hon DAMIEN O’CONNOR ... First World standards. That has cost us a fortune. I guess that National—although it would not admit it—would sell Air New Zealand and sell all the State-owned enterprises just to pay for tax cuts for their wealthy mates. If that were to happen, it ...
Budget Debate 27 May 2008
Hon DARREN HUGHES Well, we were busy buying Air New Zealand—something that was opposed by National. John Key said on television that it was a good idea to buy it back. It is a ...
Dr ASHRAF CHOUDHARY ... In March 2005 he said that Landcorp and Solid Energy would be sold, and that there was no reason for the State to own Air New Zealand. Then in April 2008 the same leader said that no State assets would be sold in the first term of a National Government. ...
Taxation (Personal Tax Cuts, Annual Rates, and Remedial Matters) Bill
Second Reading 22 May 2008
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... criticism has come from the Opposition about the buy back of the railways business. We believe that if rail is run as Air New Zealand is run, then it will be a huge advantage to this country. We believe quite simply that it is wrong to give money to ...
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... the system to collapse. So I tell Mr Hide not to rewrite history. Rail was under threat of utter collapse—so was Air New Zealand—but this Government stepped in. We had the prudent financial management of Dr Michael Cullen, who was able to rescue ...
In Committee 22 May 2008
Hon TONY RYALL ... he is history. I will tell members what Michael Cullen’s history will show. He is the guy who mucked up the rescue of Air New Zealand and actually had to have the Government buy it back. He is the guy who almost lost Labour the 2005 election. He is such ...
Third Reading 22 May 2008
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... who compare the purchase of Toll’s rail operations with the old days of New Zealand Rail, we say they should look at Air New Zealand. The Government of New Zealand had to put $800 million into it. Air New Zealand is now a shining example of success. It ...
General Debate 21 May 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... sell the assets of New Zealand, but they are going to get rid of them; there is no doubt about it. Rail will be gone, Air New Zealand will be gone, Television One will be sold, our energy generation will be sold, the Accident Compensation Corporation ...
General Debate 14 May 2008
Hon SHANE JONES ... public approve of these investments. Has a backward step emerged in terms of international travel since we acquired Air New Zealand? No. It was a fantastic commercial intervention. Are we not going to create a great opportunity for a more efficient ...
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... it is part of a transport system, and we certainly understand that and applaud that. Likewise, we applauded when Air New Zealand was bought back, and we believe that that is a model for the railway enterprise going forward. Likewise, I have pleaded ...
Holidays (Transfer of Public Holidays) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 26 Sep 2008
KATE WILKINSON ... of the Supreme Court decision in the New Zealand Airline Pilots’ Association Industrial Union of Workers Inc. v Air New Zealand Ltd case. If we look back in history, we see that the way in which some of these issues evolve is ...
Second Reading 26 Sep 2008
KATE WILKINSON ...“public holiday” back in 2002. That Supreme Court decision, involving the New Zealand Air Line Pilots’ Association and Air New Zealand, basically held that under the current legislation an employer and an employee could not agree to transfer a public ...
TE URUROA FLAVELL
... the recent Supreme Court decision New Zealand Airline Pilots’ Association Industrial Union of Workers Incorporated v Air New Zealand Limited”. However, it deals with only the Heinz-Wattie case issue of shift workers. It does not address the ...
... the recent Supreme Court decision New Zealand Airline Pilots’ Association Industrial Union of Workers Incorporated v Air New Zealand Limited”. However, it deals with only the Heinz-Wattie case issue of shift workers. It does not ...
In Committee 26 Sep 2008
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... thought that was the case at the time. Unfortunately, in November last year, in the Air Line Pilots’ Association and Air New Zealand case, the Supreme Court gave a ruling that was not asked for by anybody, and it did upset people’s understanding of the ...
First Reading 13 May 2008
PAULA BENNETT ... bill is needed to try to amend the Act, because the Act has been unclear for the courts once it was taken there by Air New Zealand in relation to how the company could transfer the Act’s provisions. As my colleague Kate Wilkinson clearly stated, we ...
SUE BRADFORD ... changes. Most workers would agree that the recent New Zealand Air Line Pilots’ Association Union of Workers Inc. v Air New Zealand Ltd Supreme Court decision, which found that an employer and an employee cannot agree to transfer a ...
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... constant and consistent amendment. So even faced with straightforward situations, as indeed the airline pilots in Air New Zealand were faced with, the legislation was so complicated that the court could not do what in fact the parties thought they ...
Urgent Debates - Toll Holdings—Rail and Ferry Purchase
Toll Holdings—Rail and Ferry Purchase 13 May 2008
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... memory in the National Party. That speech was almost word for word what National members said when we bought Air New Zealand. They said that it was an effective private company; it did not need to be bought. We would not know how to run it. We ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... within State ownership. Well, why then does the member opposite now believe that it is a good idea to buy back Air New Zealand? He now believes that it is a good idea to buy back the track, but we have to commit far more investment to the track ...
PETER BROWN ... National ends up on the Government benches, will it sell rail if it gets a second term in office? Will National sell Air New Zealand if it gets a second term in office?
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... that 1 hour on the plane will be very much more expensive than it is now. Airlines all over the world, including Air New Zealand, are putting up their prices because of the price of oil. Nothing is actually going to replace cheap oil. We will have ...
Hon ANNETTE KING ... the speech from the Leader of the Opposition, John Key. He was the man who was opposed to the Government buying back Air New Zealand, but this week he is telling New Zealand that he supports it, and that it was his idea to buy back Air New Zealand. ...
General Debate 16 Apr 2008
Hon PAUL SWAIN ... and superannuation made sense. That was in 2002. In 2003 John Key said “I can’t see any compelling reason to own Air New Zealand.” Then in 2004 Don Brash said they were not willing to say whether there were going to be any State-owned enterprises. ...
Biosecurity Amendment Bill (No 4), Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Amendment Bill (No 2) - Third Readings
Third Readings 3 Apr 2008
Hon TARIANA TURIA Tēnā koe, Mr Assistant Speaker. Tēnā tātou katoa. At the start of this week, passengers on Air New Zealand flight 21 from Fiji were treated to a surprise—a surprise manual spraying when it was discovered that the aircraft’s ...
General Debate 19 Mar 2008
Hon PHIL GOFF ... and if we get that back into the community ownership again, Bill English has already said he would sell it off—and Air New Zealand and all of the rest of them. That is what The Hollow Men taught us about the National Party. What ...
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... was that “We will spend the lot on agricultural research.” He needed to be more decisive, so he took positions on Air New Zealand and on Auckland airport. But it took him eight goes to get to “Um”—eight goes to get to “Um”. He is not the kind of guy ...
Labour
Air New Zealand—Pay Disparities 18 Mar 2008
Dr PITA SHARPLES Has he received any reports explaining the gross pay disparities between Air New Zealand staff based in China and in New Zealand, disparities which have led former member Tuariki Delamere to describe the ...
Keith Locke Does the Minister think that this example of free trade between Chinese and New Zealand labour within Air New Zealand is an indicator of the savings that may be made by other employers in construction, manufacturing, or the service ...
Dr Pita Sharples Has the Minister read the information from the Service and Food Workers Union that Air New Zealand has offered less money to union workers than it paid to other workers who are doing the same work; and what role can he ...
Hon TREVOR MALLARD There is a fundamental gap in the member’s logic. Air New Zealand does not employ these people.
Dr Pita Sharples Does the Minister agree with the sentiments expressed in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald, which describes Air New Zealand’s attitude as disgusting in paying more than 30 Chinese workers less than their New Zealand counterparts are paid, ...
Third Readings 13 Mar 2008
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... and go on and on about the dreadful 1990s. They forget, of course, that they were the ones who privatised Telecom and Air New Zealand. But they never stop. I ask Labour members to please deal with the facts as they are. I do not want to sound like ...
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 12 Mar 2008
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... in an argument that has been proven to be wrong by successive Governments. We are going to the expense of buying Air New Zealand back, we have gone to the expense of buying New Zealand’s rail network, ONTRACK, back, and it seems that it will be the ...
Statutes Amendment Bill (No 2) 2007
Second Reading 11 Mar 2008
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... almost anything literally is possible. Speaking about te reo, I briefly congratulate Jemma, an air hostess on my Air New Zealand flight this morning, on welcoming and farewelling all passengers in Māori, and taking real care with her pronunciation ...
Immigration
Immigration Service—Asha Ali Abdille 13 Feb 2008
Barbara Stewart ... District Health Board to be of no threat to herself and others just days before she attacked and wounded two Air New Zealand pilots with a knife?
Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill (No 3) 2007
First Reading 11 Oct 2007
CRAIG FOSS ...Hawke’s Bay, the home of the mighty Magpies—one of New Zealand’s best rugby teams—who are currently fourth-equal in the Air New Zealand Cup. I will touch on three of the Acts and/or Orders in Council that the subordinate legislation deals with. Clause 8 ...
Armed Forces Law Reform Bill
In Committee 10 Oct 2007
Tim Groser Air New Zealand flights, for example!
Dr WAYNE MAPP It could be Air New Zealand flights, for example, but, in fact, it is really intended to be limited, at least to some extent—and I want to state ...
General Debate 22 Aug 2007
Hon MURRAY McCULLY ... that that tactic stopped. I want the Ministers opposite to tell this House today just what the cost will be for Air New Zealand. We know that $18 million worth of charters are now at risk, but what New Zealanders have yet to grasp is that Air New ...
Hon MURRAY McCULLY Well, I think that New Zealanders are entitled to know what the cost is. We know that Air New Zealand derives in total some tens of millions of dollars of revenue from those contracts, and we want an answer.
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... the hallmarks of a disintegrating Government. I have to ask the Government speakers: who knew what happened in the Air New Zealand situation? The strangest aspect of the whole issue about Air New Zealand and charter flights is who in the Government ...
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... Zealanders. If that lot were the Government, they would have sent young New Zealand men and women there to die, and Air New Zealand would have been bringing them back in body bags.
State Services
State Services Commissioner—Confidence 21 Aug 2007
Gerry Brownlee ... Finance has stated that he expects Dr Prebble to factor in Simon Murdoch’s failure to keep the Government informed of Air New Zealand’s charter flights to Kuwait, involving the Australian military, at the next performance review; and does she have ...
State Services Commissioner—Environment Ministry Appointment 16 Aug 2007
Gerry Brownlee ... or alert Government Ministers on matters of significant political interest, such as the Madeleine Setchell matter or Air New Zealand’s flying of Aussie troops to Iraq; and is that because the Labour Government would rather there was not a paper trail, ...
Foreign Affairs
Combined Threat Assessment Group—Reports 10 Oct 2007
Hon Murray McCully ... 16 August as to whether any official from his ministry had communicated with him or his office in any form over the Air New Zealand charters by stating: “To the best of everyone’s recollections, there were no communications to the Minister of Foreign ...
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS The simple fact is that Mr Fyfe of Air New Zealand called Simon Murdoch, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in January and he said he would get back ...
Air New Zealand—Charter Flights 16 Aug 2007
Hon MURRAY McCULLY What communications, if any, were made to him or his office by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding Air New Zealand’s discussion with the ministry about carrying Australian Defence Force personnel to Middle East locations?
Hon Murray McCully ... of his officials; that is, do his ministry officials absolutely accept that they failed to advise him of Air New Zealand’s plans, as they should have done?
Hon Murray McCully ... with the best recollections of his officials; that is, do they absolutely accept that they failed to advise him of Air New Zealand’s plans, as they should have done?
Keith Locke In giving the green light to Air New Zealand, was the ministry at least in some measure acting on signals from Government Ministers, such as the opposition of the ...
Hon Murray McCully ... the House that at no stage did any ministry official communicate information to him or his office about the planned Air New Zealand charters?
Hon Murray McCully ... stage did any official from his ministry communicate in writing or in any other form with him or his office about the Air New Zealand charters?
Hon Murray McCully ... reconcile his statements in the media last night and this morning that the ministry was given little information by Air New Zealand and that the company had also failed to get back to the ministry, as it had expected, with the statement by Air New ...
Immigration Bill
In Committee 17 Sep 2009
KEITH LOCKE ... was fingerprinted in Los Angeles International Airport, where I sat in a transit lounge for an hour. I hopped off an Air New Zealand plane and hopped back on to it an hour later, and in the meantime I was fingerprinted. It gets a bit over the top. ...
First Reading 16 Aug 2007
KEITH LOCKE ... point is that we are not, at the moment, being overrun by terrorists, and the security danger can be exaggerated. If Air New Zealand keeps flying troops to Kuwait and Iraq, we might have more problems, but at the present time and in the foreseeable ...
General Debate 15 Aug 2007
Hon PHIL GOFF ... had to say. The first thing he had the temerity to raise was the question of troops being sent from Australia by Air New Zealand. The debate that has been happening in this Chamber, I say to Mr English, has been about the National Party’s desire to ...
Hon DAVID CARTER ... Benson-Pope; Mark Prebble under suspicion; the electoral reform legislation unravelling; and then today we heard that Air New Zealand has now become a military carrier for the Aussie troops. But I want to talk about something that I saw leading the ...
Defence
Iraq—War 10 Oct 2007
Gerry Brownlee ... not that the war was over—and, just by the way, would it be OK for Mr Key to use his airpoints to go to Iraq now that Air New Zealand flies there, in order that he can see firsthand what is going on in Basra?
Iraq—New Zealand Troop Deployment 19 Sep 2007
Gerry Brownlee ... documents showing that the practical support the Government gave the invasion of Iraq was the transport of troops on Air New Zealand.
Air New Zealand—Australian Troops 15 Aug 2007
Dr WAYNE MAPP Can the Minister confirm that following consultation with the Government, Air New Zealand, which is 80 percent owned by the Government, has recently been flying Australian combat troops who are on deployment ...
Hon PHIL GOFF I was advised shortly before coming to the House that an article is to be produced tomorrow that suggests Air New Zealand undertook a commercial contract to transfer troops from Australia to Kuwait. I understand that if the Australian troops ...
Iraq—New Zealand Troops 15 Aug 2007
Keith Locke I seek leave to table two relevant documents. The first is a media release this afternoon from Air New Zealand, explaining that the mainly Government-owned Air New Zealand sent two charter flights of Australian troops to Kuwait.
Major Events Management Bill
Third Reading 23 Aug 2007
CHRIS TREMAIN ... to deliver that on behalf of the Parliamentary Rugby Team. We were unable to deliver a clean stadium for Visa and Air New Zealand, the great sponsors for this team, so in the future we will perhaps be looking to bring the Parliamentary Rugby Team’s ...
In Committee 22 Aug 2007
KEITH LOCKE ... the major event for New Zealanders;”. I do not see how it gets maximum benefit for New Zealanders to, say, prevent Air New Zealand from advertising 5 kilometres out along a clean transport route, as declared under this bill, because, say, Emirates ...
KEITH LOCKE ... over our international airport. If Emirates Airline sponsors the Rugby World Cup again in 2011, do we really want Air New Zealand to pay a fine of $150,000 if it happens to have a sign 4.5 kilometres out from Eden Park, along the declared clean ...
KEITH LOCKE ... or covering things—the bill talks about covering things. Presumably it refers to, for example, covering adverts. If Air New Zealand is advertising when Emirates Airline is the official sponsor, as is the case in the Rugby World Cup in France, the ...
KEITH LOCKE ... 30 days after the completion or termination of the major event. So one can imagine a situation where, for instance, Air New Zealand could have an advert 4.5 kilometres away and the enforcement officer, without a police officer present, could cover ...
Second Reading 14 Aug 2007
KEITH LOCKE ... hub, Auckland International Airport, may well, in 2011, be protected by this bill, which will stop any advertising by Air New Zealand along the declared 5-kilometre clean transport route. The fine for Air New Zealand would be up to $150,000. How ...
Appropriation (2007/08 Estimates) Bill
Third Reading 14 Aug 2007
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... not like to see the return of the days when assets were sold by both the big, old parties in this House. They sold Air New Zealand, the railways, the tracks, and that sort of thing. We still look forward to the day when our colleague Peter Brown’s ...
Climate Change Issues
Kyoto Protocol—Costs 19 Jul 2007
Hon DAVID PARKER The Independent Financial Review yesterday reported on its front page that Air New Zealand and plane manufacturer Boeing are working with the Blenheim-based biofuel developer Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation to ...
State-Owned Enterprises (AgriQuality Limited and Asure New Zealand Limited) Bill
Third Reading 21 Jun 2007
KEITH LOCKE ... previous speaker spoke on the question of whether competition is always good, my friend Doug Woolerton yelled out “Air New Zealand”, and I think that is a case in point. The wages and conditions of workers at Air New Zealand were driven down as a ...
Budget Debate 24 May 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... who think KiwiSaver is a good idea, and it is responsible business that believes that KiwiSaver is a good idea. Air New Zealand today announced that it will match the full 4 percent, right from the beginning of KiwiSaver. National members have ...
Education
Early Childhood Education—ABC Learning Centres and Kidicorp 9 May 2007
Paula Bennett ... the profits of Kidicorp show a level of commercial naivety on a par with the Prime Minister’s comments about Air New Zealand in 2001, and does he accept some responsibility for the subsequent drop in share value that resulted from his comments?
Aviation Security Legislation Bill
In Committee 11 Sep 2007
PETER BROWN ... respect of arming inflight security officers, it is a sad day when we even have to consider arming them. As I recall, Air New Zealand told us quite categorically that if it got to that situation it would probably cancel the flight. Air New Zealand ...
Second Reading 4 Sep 2007
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... agreements that allow airlines to travel to and from New Zealand and allow New Zealand airlines, particularly Air New Zealand, to access very important markets throughout the world. I guess it is with some regret that we progress pieces of ...
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... realise was that when I got to Heathrow, instead of being able to transfer from the Air France plane across to the Air New Zealand plane, I had to come back through the security system to be checked. They put my bag through and said there was a ...
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... effective it is in New Zealand, because I worked out at the airport on a number of occasions when I was working for Air New Zealand, and management were called in to do things like load the aeroplanes. Although there was quite a bit of security around ...
KEITH LOCKE ... security officers—that is, those coming in and out of New Zealand airports, not necessarily on a flag carrier, an Air New Zealand plane. In the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee the airline pilots expressed strong concern about ...
DAVID BENNETT ... robust legislation that will take us forward as a country, give us some security in travel, and also give our airline—Air New Zealand—some security. This is not just an issue about travel or New Zealand; there is an economic issue to be considered as ...
First Reading 20 Mar 2007
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... time before New Zealand has to invoke its own security officers on aeroplanes that are New Zealand domiciled, such as Air New Zealand flights going out of here. But I accept that we are flying into some potentially dangerous zones, and some airlines are ...
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... that many parts of the world now will just not allow aeroplanes to touch down—whether they are aeroplanes flown by Air New Zealand or by airlines that have passed through New Zealand and are going on to another part of the world carrying visitors and ...
DAVID BENNETT ... for increased migration over a number of years, since September 11. Our country has an international airline in Air New Zealand. It is also very important that we maintain top-rate security in order that Air New Zealand can be competitive as an ...
KEITH LOCKE ... marshal on board. The explanatory note states that in the absence of air marshals we could have a situation where “Air New Zealand could sustain a loss of revenue associated with the cancelling of flights occasionally”. Then there are other dangers ...
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... causing the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union to take action to the Employment Court. It alleged that Air New Zealand acted in bad faith regarding consultation over its plans to contract out. A different union, the Service and Food ...
Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Bill 2006
Second Reading 20 Feb 2007
PETER BROWN ...Z)—[Interruption] That was Rodney Hide. He would sell everything, with due respect. The National Party would sell TVNZ, Air New Zealand, Meridian Energy, Genesis Energy, and Mighty River Power, and we know that it would privatise, at least, the Accident ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 13 Feb 2007
JOHN KEY ... way she says they are. This is a Prime Minister who is aloof and out of touch; she is happy in first class in an Air New Zealand jet, but is just not that happy wandering around New Zealand finding out what is going on. [Interruption] We will get ...
Income Tax Bill 2006
First Reading 23 Nov 2006
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... in my opinion we went far too far the other way. This has cost the taxpayers in various ways. I can think of Air New Zealand, the railways, and many other things where we reacted too strongly and the reforms went too far and too fast—certainly ...
Auckland Issues
Auckland International Airport Ltd—Sale Options Actions 24 Jul 2007
Rt Hon Winston Peters ... contains a clause that seeks to enhance the relationship between the airport and one named airline, which is not Air New Zealand; and on what basis could the Government consider a deal that allows a foreign takeover of arguably our most important ...
First Reading 22 Nov 2006
BARBARA STEWART ... one occasion, and I had to land at Paraparaumu Airport and be bussed to Wellington. So it is a very useful asset for Air New Zealand to have access to, and for it to be able to land flights there. We in New Zealand First believe that legal safeguards ...
Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Bill, Racing Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 25 Oct 2006
HONE HARAWIRA ... tied to Aussie apron strings. These last few weeks the Māori Party has been raising issues about the outsourcing of Air New Zealand’s finance work to Fiji, Telecom’s shifting of its call centre work to the Philippines, and other developments that show ...
Social Development and Employment
Social Inclusion—Minister’s Statement 24 Oct 2006
Tariana Turia ... New Zealand workers and their families who stand to lose their jobs while the Government, the major shareholder in Air New Zealand, is outsourcing its work to China and Fiji to get cheap labour?
Hon DAVID BENSON-POPE I have no responsibility for Air New Zealand.
Third Readings 12 Oct 2006
JOHN KEY ... with a Prime Minister who did not understand the issues of insider trading herself. The Government owns 82 percent of Air New Zealand, and the Prime Minister was so ignorant of the legislation that operates around this area that she did not know, when ...
Dr the Hon LOCKWOOD SMITH ... say that these things happen from time to time. But it was not. The way in which the Labour Government handled the Air New Zealand fiasco was an absolute disaster, and showed the absolute incompetence of the Minister of Finance when it came to ...
LINDSAY TISCH ... we are talking about confidence, reputation, and integrity in the market, we see a Government that has fallen short. Air New Zealand was mentioned by Dr Lockwood Smith and the opportunity for offshore investment—an opportunity that was lost. I spoke ...
Te Arawa Lakes Settlement Bill
In Committee 12 Sep 2006
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... million is set aside in 2006 for NH90 helicopters, $200 million was set aside in 2003 for Tranz Rail, there was the Air New Zealand bail-out of $885 million in 2001, $620 million was set aside in 1990 for the Bank of New Zealand bail-out, and so on. ...
Employment Relations Amendment Bill 2006
Third Reading 7 Sep 2006
PAULA BENNETT ... necessarily. It merely went into the bureaucracy of running the health board and the provisions of the Holidays Act. Air New Zealand is another example. It said it had to put another $17 million into its costs, with no hint of productivity increases at ...
PETER BROWN ... to submissions, yet she does not have a darn clue what the bill is all about. She was talking about the Holidays Act, Air New Zealand, and goodness knows what else. This bill is about vulnerable workers—people who are on the bottom rung of society. ...
In Committee 31 Aug 2006
CHRIS TREMAIN ... a new track for this country, with the introduction of GST, the privatisation of public assets such as Telecom and Air New Zealand, the cutting of agricultural subsidies and trade barriers, and the control of inflation. The commencement date of the ...
General Debate 30 Aug 2006
Hon ANNETTE KING ... Counties-Manukau hub. We have built more houses. We have put huge investment into road and rail. We even bought back Air New Zealand so we could keep a national airline. We bought back the rail so there could be a rail corridor. We have invested in ...
KiwiSaver Bill
In Committee 29 Aug 2006
JOHN KEY ... of difficulty when it comes to investment advice. New Zealanders will remember that she told them: “Do not sell your Air New Zealand shares. Hang on to them for a little bit longer.” Actually, I hope people did not hang on to those shares for too long ...
Commerce
Trans-Tasman Business—Mergers 3 Aug 2006
Gerry Brownlee Can the Minister confirm that those arrangements are being put in place to facilitate the reverse takeover of Air New Zealand by Qantas?
Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Bill 2006
Second Reading 19 Oct 2006
HONE HARAWIRA ... of Australia’s 280,000 finance jobs could disappear if outsourcing continues. In the light of recent decisions by Air New Zealand to outsource a lot of its finance and clerical work to Fijian low-cost labour, the Māori Party is supportive of ...
First Reading 19 Jul 2006
CRAIG FOSS ... sports teams. Currently, and in a similar vein, there are discussions and a debate over a code-share between Air New Zealand and Qantas. The Westpac New Zealand Bill was alluded to in the House today. There are many, many similar things going on,...
Corrections
Prisoners—Recidivism 18 Jul 2006
Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR ... at a cost of $33,000 per prisoner per year. We took a leaf out of the privatisation book by looking to Railways and Air New Zealand, and we as a Government learnt from the lessons of the past.
General Debate 28 Jun 2006
JOHN KEY ... David Parker, Lianne Dalziel, and Damien O’Connor—were accompanied by Rob Fyfe, the chief executive officer of Air New Zealand, John Palmer, the chairman, and Ken Douglas, that well-known Labour supporter. These were Ministers whose portfolios, ...
KATHERINE RICH ... at least the Government owns the assets. Well, we on this side of the House hate to tell Trevor Mallard this, but if Air New Zealand fell over, the people with the first call on the planes would be that airline’s creditors, not the Government as the ...
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... of avoiding a conflict of interest. I have some lovely quotes from Ministers, but first I will paint the picture. Air New Zealand makes no bones about the fact that it is in big trouble financially on the trans-Tasman service. Its solution is to get ...
Māori Purposes Bill
First Reading 27 Jun 2006
PHIL HEATLEY ... vote, and they would like their claim to be amended. It could be like one of those Michael Cullen dinner parties with Air New Zealand, where a deal is done and no one is any the wiser. So I say of Parekura Horomia—nod, nod, wink, wink; say no more—that ...
State Owned Enterprises
State-owned Assets, Sales—Extension of Mixed-ownership Model 10 Feb 2011
Hon SIMON POWER Yes, the advice I have is that after the fourth Labour Government sold Air New Zealand completely in 1989, the fifth Labour Government initially purchased an 82 percent share in 2001. It then diluted that ...
Hon Trevor Mallard Was the comment in his primary response accurate when he said the Government issued convertible notes in Air New Zealand? Was it 100 percent accurate?
Hon Trevor Mallard Did the Government issue convertible notes in Air New Zealand?
State-owned Enterprises—Scope 13 Jun 2006
Hon TREVOR MALLARD Looking at Air New Zealand, Telecom, Tranz Rail, and other wonderful assets that were hocked off in the past in a way—[ Interruption]
Gordon Copeland Could the Minister please advise the House, in referring to Telecom, Air New Zealand, and New Zealand Rail, which of those companies, if any, had a partial minority sale down to mum and dad investors of ...
Budget Debate 24 May 2006
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... loss, and poor judgment. The first example is the proposal by Singapore Airlines to take a 49 percent share in Air New Zealand. That proposal required Cabinet approval. Running an airline is a very fraught business. It is well illustrated by the ...
Prime Minister
State-owned Assets, Sales—Ownership of Shares 6 Sep 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH There was an example just last week. Air New Zealand, which was set up as a mixed-ownership company by the previous Labour Government and has operated in that way for—
Hon BILL ENGLISH Well, I presume the Labour Government knew what it was doing. I presume the Labour Government knew it was setting up Air New Zealand as mixed ownership. It raised $150 million of 5-year bonds from the local market. There was obviously very strong ....
Economy—Protection from Global Market Volatility 10 Aug 2011
Rt Hon JOHN KEY ... case of Meridian Energy with Southern Hydro, and when the sale of those assets has taken place. As we have seen with Air New Zealand, that is the very reason why that company has operated in the way that it has: because it has had a mixture of ....
State-owned Assets, Sales—Ownership of Shares 14 Jul 2011
Hon Clayton Cosgrove ... evidence does he have that so-called Kiwi mums and dads will be able to afford to buy shares in energy companies and Air New Zealand, not including shares purchased indirectly through the likes of KiwiSaver, ACC, and other entities?
Hon BILL ENGLISH As the Government moves to the mixed-ownership model that is modelled on the Air New Zealand one, which was set up by the previous Labour Government, we expect that the same Kiwi mums and dads who currently own ...
State-owned Energy Companies—Privatisation 13 Jul 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... no sale of a cornerstone shareholding is being proposed. The Government is putting forward a model much more like Air New Zealand’s—51 percent Government ownership.
State-owned Assets, Sales—Policy 12 Jul 2011
Rt Hon JOHN KEY ... 5 years. The way that we intend to do that is to extend the mixed-ownership model as the previous Government did with Air New Zealand.
State-owned Assets, Sales—Onselling Shares to Foreign Investors 6 Jul 2011
Rt Hon JOHN KEY One of the tests we set for extending the mixed-ownership model to companies other than just Air New Zealand was that there would be widespread and substantial New Zealand share ownership. We are still working through the ...
Rt Hon JOHN KEY ... in 9 years in office never bother having the same restrictions it seems to be talking about now on the balance of Air New Zealand shares held by the public?
Rt Hon JOHN KEY ... because we took the same approach that Labour did when it was in Government, and that was that it held 73 percent of Air New Zealand. It did not find any need for restrictions because, as those members know, those shares held in the public domain did ...
Rt Hon JOHN KEY ... New Zealand Steel, Petrocorp, Health Computing Services, DFC, the Post Office Savings Bank, Shipping Corporation, Air New Zealand, Landcorp Farming, the Rural Bank, the Government Printing Office, the National Film Unit, Communicate New Zealand, ...
Hon Phil Goff ... which sold no assets, knowing that the sale of some assets like New Zealand Rail led to asset-stripping, others like Air New Zealand led to a previously successful business being run into bankruptcy, and the sale by National of BNZ for a mere $1.5 ...
State-owned Assets, Sales—Purpose 5 Jul 2011
Rt Hon JOHN KEY Extending the mixed-ownership model, which was pioneered by the previous Government in respect of Air New Zealand, has a number of objectives. They are to free up capital on behalf of taxpayers to fund public assets like schools and ...
State-owned Assets, Sales—Shares 14 Jun 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH Yes. The mixed-ownership model introduced by the previous Labour Government for Air New Zealand is one example of the opportunity many New Zealanders have taken. There are now many thousands of New Zealand investors ...
State-owned Assets, Sales—Shares 8 Jun 2011
Hon Clayton Cosgrove Has the cost of advisers’ fees in relation to floating the energy companies and Air New Zealand been factored into the Crown accounts; if so, how much?
Hon Clayton Cosgrove ... that recent floats have cost up to 9 percent of the sale price, meaning that selling State-owned energy companies and Air New Zealand could cost up to $600 million?
State-owned Assets, Sales—Ownership of Shares 17 Feb 2011
Hon SIMON POWER ... that the Government has approved a proposal, subject to competition watchdog approval, to reduce its shareholding in Air New Zealand to 63.55 percent. That would have meant a 22.5 percent shareholding going to Qantas, a foreign investor. That press ...
State-owned Enterprises—Financial Returns 16 Feb 2011
Hon Phil Goff ... performance from the State-owned enterprises; if so, why risk privatising them when the past experience has been that Air New Zealand was run into bankruptcy and New Zealand Rail was asset-stripped?
Rt Hon JOHN KEY ... member should mention those. If it is such a bad model, can he explain, firstly, why he did not buy 100 percent of Air New Zealand when he had the chance, and, secondly, can he explain why, given that we bought KiwiRail, we are now having to put $4 ...
State-owned Assets—Assessment for Sale 25 May 2010
Hon JOHN KEY ... stake, and thinks the Government should have owned a 100 percent stake, why did the member not buy the rest of Air New Zealand? It was on the stock exchange.
Hon Phil Goff ... might put up for sale, has he considered past experience with privatisation, when a private sector board ran Air New Zealand into bankruptcy and private owners asset-stripped KiwiRail and ran it into the ground?
Hon JOHN KEY ... Leader of the Opposition, because that is the man who sold Telecom, the State Insurance Office, the Post Office Bank, Air New Zealand, the Tourist Hotel Corporation, New Zealand Steel, Petrocorp, the Government Printing Office, the DFC, the National ...
Tax Cuts—Implementation 3 Mar 2009
Hon Phil Goff Does the Prime Minister agree with Air New Zealand’s chief executive, Rob Fyfe, that “We need to stimulate this economy and there are more effective ways than broad-brushed...
Finance, Minister—Confidence 11 Mar 2008
John Key ... the securities legislation, and in fear of making the situation even more compounding, given her track record with Air New Zealand, she is now taking the Minister of Finance’s advice to shut up?
Air New Zealand—Confidential Information 5 Sep 2007
Hon BILL ENGLISH Has she, or any member of her Cabinet, received correspondence from the chair of Air New Zealand expressing concern that she has used information given to her in confidence; if so, what was her response?
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK Letters have been received expressing a view from Air New Zealand. I received no information from Air New Zealand, and I am advised that the information Air New Zealand gave other ...
Darren Hughes Has the Prime Minister received any advice on whether the public debate on Air New Zealand’s charter flights has affected its reputation?
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK I have seen advice only today that Moody’s has affirmed—today—Air New Zealand’s current credit rating, and has actually improved its outlook from “stable” to “positive”. So I can only assume the ...
Keith Locke Did the Prime Minister have a duty to provide New Zealanders with appropriate information about Air New Zealand charters, such as that to Honiara; and how can that be at all wrong if there were no security issues for New Zealand, ...
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK As is well known, Air New Zealand regularly releases information about chartered flights itself. The fact is that I referred to a charter flight to ...
Hon Bill English ... perhaps things don’t get actioned very quickly in Australia,”; and what effect does she believe that statement had on Air New Zealand’s prospects of retaining substantial, profitable business with the Australian defence forces?
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... the statement, Mr Downer had told the New Zealand High Commissioner in Australia that Australia would not be using Air New Zealand charter flights in future.
Hon Bill English ... believe that it is appropriate for the Prime Minister to use confidential and other commercial information about Air New Zealand for political purposes, when the Government has signed an agreement that in letter and in spirit it has agreed not to ...
Hon Dr Michael Cullen Can the Prime Minister confirm that the confidentiality agreement between Air New Zealand and the Government covers financial information relevant to such matters as the Public Finance Act, and that Treasury ...
Hon Bill English ... that it can use any information in any way it likes for any political purpose, without any regard for the effect on Air New Zealand’s business or its value to shareholders and taxpayers?
Hon Bill English Can we now take it that the Government’s response to the considered letter from the chairman of Air New Zealand is that he is wrong and does not know what he is talking about, that the Government can say what it likes to aggravate ...
Hon Bill English Is it now the Prime Minister’s stance that the chairman of Air New Zealand is wrong and should never have been concerned about it, that none of her actions have affected the relationship between ...
Hon Bill English Can the Prime Minister recall a Securities Commission investigation into comments she made about Air New Zealand in 2001 that recommended guidelines be drawn up to guide Ministers on statements about public companies that the ...
Australia and New Zealand—Relationship 21 Aug 2007
Hon Murray McCully ... the Prime Minister explain to the House how the public statements of senior Ministers over recent days in relation to Air New Zealand’s charter contracts with Australian defence forces, including Mr Goff’s accusation today that the Australian Minister ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I think I would put it this way: “and I think the right advice from MFAT should have been to tell them”—that is, Air New Zealand—“not to do it, simply because by association it involves them in something with which the declared position of the ...
Hon Murray McCully Has the Prime Minister been advised by her Ministers who hold the shareholding interest in Air New Zealand that the airline currently conducts tens of millions of dollars worth of business annually with the Australian defence ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... made on Australia last week. The criticism was of the failure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to advise Air New Zealand correctly, and of the failure of the ministry to advise its Minister—and, indeed, other Ministers—of the approach of ...
Hon Murray McCully Has the Prime Minister been advised that Air New Zealand provides extensive engineering services for the Royal Australian Air Force, worth millions of dollars annually, and ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... troops to the war in Iraq, and it is not going to surrender those principles for the sake of money. Of course, had Air New Zealand received advice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, it could still have proceeded to undertake those ...
Hon Murray McCully Can the Prime Minister confirm that she became aware of an Australian Defence Force - Air New Zealand charter that carried troops to Honiara late last week as a consequence of a confidential no-surprises briefing by the ...
Air New Zealand—Charter Flights 16 Aug 2007
Hon BILL ENGLISH What communications, if any, were received by her, or her office, or her department regarding Air New Zealand’s charter flights carrying Australian Defence Force personnel to Middle East locations?
Hon Bill English Can she confirm, and does she agree with, the range of statements made by Air New Zealand that it took all reasonable steps to inform the Government about what it was doing; if so, why has the Government ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN The member is quite correct. Air New Zealand undertakes a range of charter flights that involve the ferrying of troops. The fact that that is happening is nothing ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... the war in Iraq. We do not support active involvement in that war. We do not believe that participation by Air New Zealand, the New Zealand flag carrier, in ferrying troops to that war is appropriate. But we assume that Mr Key would have ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... of Foreign Affairs and Trade. It was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade that was approached for advice by Air New Zealand; no other organisation was. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade informed the appropriate officials committee ...
Hon Phil Goff ... today; and can he confirm that it is impossible to tell from the answers to questions put to Mr Key whether he is for Air New Zealand doing it, against Air New Zealand doing it, or neither for nor against?
Hon Bill English Can the Minister confirm what I think he is telling us in answers to these questions, that the information that Air New Zealand had approached the Government and asked for advice about these flights was known to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I cannot understand how the ministry did not believe that the appropriate advice to Air New Zealand was that this was not consistent with New Zealand’s national interests. But the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade ...
Hon Bill English ... officials had discussed this matter, when he went on TV3 last night, on Campbell Live, and three times said that Air New Zealand had not approached the Government—in an attempt to blame that company—when the Government’s own officials knew all ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... of those facts at that particular point in time. But of course I do note that National Party members whacked into Air New Zealand yesterday as well, before the facts were out, and they seem to have forgotten that fact very conveniently today.
Heather Roy Is Air New Zealand an independently operating commercial airline, operating on standard commercial air routes and under internationally ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN The airline is indeed a commercial operator. Of course, the route from Australia to Kuwait is not one of Air New Zealand’s more normal routes for operations, particularly given the assumption about where the passengers were going ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN Almost every one of those statements is inaccurate. Air New Zealand is not politically out of control. It sought advice, received that advice, and acted—[ Interruption]
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN Air New Zealand sought advice from the appropriate authorities, received that advice, and acted upon it. So it was not politically out ...
Cabinet Office Circular—Publicly Listed Companies 24 May 2006
Hon Bill English Can the Prime Minister confirm that it was her comments regarding Air New Zealand shares while the Government was trying to purchase Air New Zealand that gave rise to the Cabinet Office circular, and ...
Budget Debate 23 May 2006
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... will deal with the real issue in the Holidays Act? Does that mean she will deal with the issue of relevant daily pay? Air New Zealand’s 2004 annual report said pay would cost the company $17 million per year. The figure for the meat industry is $50 ...
STEVE CHADWICK ... part of it. It is a prestigious event, and it is about building the national identity. When I got home I heard about Air New Zealand opening up flights direct from India to New Zealand next year. This is what we are getting on with doing. We are ...
Urgent Debates - Release of Report—Telecommunications Stocktake Review
Release of Report—Telecommunications Stocktake Review 17 May 2006
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... whether to investigate. In my view, it has no choice. It investigated comments made by Helen Clark in 2001 regarding Air New Zealand shares. Of course, it had to do so, particularly because the case involved a Government Minister who was privy to all ...
Economic Development
New Zealand Focus Store—Sales Data, Hong Kong 16 May 2006
Hon TREVOR MALLARD Yes, and, to explain, that is because most of the sales data belongs to Air New Zealand, education providers, Fisher and Paykel, and New Zealand Natural.
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 16 May 2006
LINDSAY TISCH ... number of calls under Dr Cullen as Minister of Finance, are we saying that there can be two calls on, let us say, Air New Zealand, and two on the Earthquake Commission, or is it two within that whole bracket of entities?
GORDON COPELAND ... enterprises. I completely understand that and sympathise with them, following the debacle of the 100 percent sales of Air New Zealand and New Zealand Rail, which have rightly made Kiwis very nervous about asset sales. But I stress that in both cases, ...
Employment Relations (Flexible Working Arrangements) Amendment Bill
In Committee 17 Oct 2007
JOHN HAYES ... their names?”, what companies do they name? There is Telecom. Who is the owner? It is the Government. Then they name Air New Zealand. Who is the owner? It is the Government. Then they talk about various organisations employing nurses, and other ...
Consideration of Interim Report of Transport and Industrial Relations Committee 3 May 2006
DARIEN FENTON ... the many collective agreements where unions have specifically sought to regulate hours to prevent casualisation, and Air New Zealand gave us the example of its 50 collective agreements that would require renegotiation with the unions involved. Many ...
Transport
Rugby World Cup Opening—Transport Issues 14 Sep 2011
Hon STEVEN JOYCE No. If the member thinks that that would be the issue, then obviously we would not allow Air New Zealand to run air transport, we would not allow KiwiRail to run rail transport, we would not allow road freighting companies ...
Roading—Public-private Partnerships 10 Oct 2007
Hon ANNETTE KING Oh yes, it has. This Government also invested in Air New Zealand so that we retained our national airline. We have a proud record in transport. I do know that Maurice Williamson is a ...
Civil Aviation Authority, Board and Chairman—Confidence 14 Jun 2006
Hon ANNETTE KING ... a small number of operators. I want to assure this House and New Zealanders that there is no concern at all with our Air New Zealand, our Freedom Air, Qantas, and so on. That sector is not of concern. This coroner’s report goes to the area of some of ...
Air New Zealand—Services to London 6 Apr 2006
H V ROSS ROBERTSON What advances in the UK - New Zealand Air Services Agreement have been made to allow Air New Zealand to secure a second daily service to London?
Hon PETE HODGSON Yesterday Air New Zealand announced plans to launch a second daily service between Auckland and London Heathrow Airport. That is as a direct ...
Air New Zealand / Qantas—Code-share Criteria 4 Apr 2006
PETER BROWN ... would his Ministry follow were it to study a potential code-share agreement on trans-Tasman routes between Qantas and Air New Zealand?
Peter Brown Is the Minister aware that when there was a code-sharing arrangement between Air New Zealand and Qantas in the early 1990s, there was much frustration and, dare I say, anger from passengers who would book on one ...
Health
Laboratory Services, Auckland—Consultation 22 Mar 2007
Hon ANNETTE KING ... Government agency, undertake consultation in the manner that has been established. It goes right back to the loss of Air New Zealand v Wellington International Airport, which set out how consultation ought to be undertaken. Those principles are ...
District Health Boards—Laboratory Contracts 30 Mar 2006
Hon PETE HODGSON I am not sure, but quite possibly when we bought back Air New Zealand or when we took back rail. If the member is asking about the health sector, it was quite possibly when the West Coast ...
Courts and Criminal Matters Bill
In Committee 28 Mar 2006
MARTIN GALLAGHER ... bix”, they ain’t going. The logic is very simple. If people can afford to take a holiday and fly on Freedom Air, Air New Zealand, or Emirates Airline to the Gold Coast, then they can afford to pay their outstanding fines and reparations. I think ...
Tariff (Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 21 Mar 2006
KEITH LOCKE ... etc. We have seen tragedies across a range of infrastructures—for example, rail with Tranz Rail, airlines with Air New Zealand’s earlier failure, and also in the telecommunications area with Telecom. As with a lot of legislation that passes ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 21 Feb 2006
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... and bite hard. Think about this. Ngā iwi Māori, to settle 23 claims, were offered half of what was paid out to save Air New Zealand. That is $100 million less than the Government allocated in the 2000 Budget for Skyhawks and frigates. I would hope ...
SUE BRADFORD ... capacity we can on our own shores in this isolated little country of ours. That is why the current imbroglio around Air New Zealand’s heavy engineering and aircraft maintenance capacity is so unfortunate. Business and Government should be doing ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 14 Feb 2006
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ...anufacturers; Skeggs Group, frozen peas; clothing firms making clothes for the iconic brand Icebreaker; Feltex Carpets; Air New Zealand maintenance staff; and Debonair Furniture. The total jobs lost from those redundancies over just the last 6 months is ...
GERRY BROWNLEE ... cannot stand here today and say that we want a high-skill, high-wage economy when very highly skilled engineers at Air New Zealand, a substantially Government-owned company, are expected to take rather large pay cuts in order to keep their jobs. That ...
Taxation (Annual Rates and Urgent Measures) Bill
In Committee 13 Dec 2005
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... better services under the free-enterprise system, in the hands of private owners, because we all know the history of Air New Zealand, rail, and all those sorts of things. Mr Clayton Cosgrove talked about borrowing for the tax cuts, which was mooted ...
Urgent Debates - Te Wānanga o Aotearoa—Auditor-General’s Report
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa—Auditor-General’s Report 6 Dec 2005
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... to get this flagship into a situation of profit again. We are not talking about Te Wānanga o Aotearoa here; this is Air New Zealand, the so-called national symbol of the country’s airlines, with many of the top commercial brains in the country. Four ...
Standing Orders—Sessional 24 Nov 2005
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I seek leave that the Abortion Supervisory Committee, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and Air New Zealand Ltd be public organisations for the purposes of the Standing Orders. Briefly, just so perhaps new members understand, ...
Finance
State-owned Assets, Sales—Foreign Ownership of Shares 5 Oct 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... 51 percent Government ownership in four energy State-owned assets and allowing investors to buy a greater share of Air New Zealand. Under the model, the same one as Labour put in place for Air New Zealand, the Government will retain 51 percent, and ...
Economy—Growth and Job Creation 7 Sep 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... TradeMe on the New Zealand sharemarket—a model similar to the one the Government is proposing and similar to that of Air New Zealand, which was set up as a mixed-ownership company by the previous Labour Government.
State-owned Assets, Sales—Ownership of Shares 6 Sep 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH I have already mentioned Air New Zealand, which has operated as a mixed-ownership company for some years, because it was set up that way by the previous Labour ...
Economy—Government Policies 6 Sep 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... will also extend the mixed-ownership model to four energy State-owned enterprises, and reduce its shareholding in Air New Zealand.
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... the same time the Government will retain 51 percent control of these five State-owned enterprises, the same model as Air New Zealand and the Port of Tauranga.
Energy Companies, State-owned—Onselling Shares to Foreign Investors 6 Jul 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH I presume the Government would take the same approach as the Labour Government did when it floated a quarter of Air New Zealand on the New Zealand Stock Exchange. As far as I understand, most of those shares have not fallen into foreign hands.
Hon David Cunliffe Given that the Minister has clearly taken no advice about the fact that Labour bought back shares in Air New Zealand rather than floated them, what official advice has he received on the percentage of any shares sold under his ...
Michael Woodhouse What criteria were applied by the Government when considering foreign investment in Air New Zealand by the very successful mixed-ownership model under which it is operating?
Hon BILL ENGLISH The largest foreign investment in Air New Zealand actually occurred in December 2002, under the previous Government, when Qantas paid $100 million for a minority ...
State-owned Assets, Sales—Ownership of Shares 5 Jul 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... in the programme that Labour put together back in the 1980s. We are trying to learn from their lessons. They put the Air New Zealand model together 5 or 6 years ago. Air New Zealand has worked under mixed ownership, and these companies would work under ...
State-owned Assets, Sales—Costs to Households 21 Jun 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH I expect we will get the same benefits as Air New Zealand does from the Labour Government having set Air New Zealand up under the mixed-ownership model. It will deepen local ...
State-owned Assets—Crown Equity in Energy Companies and Air New Zealand 16 Jun 2011
Hon DAVID PARKER ... the combined increase in the value of the Crown’s equity in Meridian, Mighty River Power, Solid Energy, Genesis and Air New Zealand for each of the last five years?
State-owned Energy Companies, Sales—Mixed-ownership Model 15 Jun 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH One of the sensible things the previous Labour Government did—one of about two, I think—was to set up Air New Zealand, when it purchased it, under the mixed-ownership model. The Government retained, I think, about 75 percent ownership, ...
Budget 2011—Sales of State-owned Assets 9 Jun 2011
Hon David Cunliffe ... financial statements that bear his signature and clearly record that total dividends from State-owned enterprises and Air New Zealand were $831 million in that year; if so, why did he tell this House yesterday that “The true figure for dividends from ...
Companies, Financial Support—Government Guarantee 12 Apr 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... of State-owned enterprises, people will draw their own conclusions. It has not stopped a State-owned enterprise like Air New Zealand, under the mixed-ownership model, being a successful company.
Hon Clayton Cosgrove ... lack of reinvestment, the kinds of practices that forced the previous Government to buy back Tranz Rail and bail out Air New Zealand after they were run into the ground by private investors?
Energy Companies, State-owned—Financial Returns 15 Feb 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... model is just following the example set by the previous Labour Government, which through its mixed ownership of Air New Zealand was able to free up capital for other uses, which is what we want to do; make investment in good New Zealand companies ...
Company Bail-out Criteria—Advice 19 Feb 2009
Hon Trevor Mallard ... that there is a proper return from any funding to firms through, for example, an equity stake on a model similar to Air New Zealand?
Prime Minister—Ideas 17 Feb 2009
Hon David Cunliffe ... which the Minister previously referred include his previous comments that “Imagine the billion dollars just spent on Air New Zealand and the ‘People’s Bank’ that could have been invested in fixing infrastructure. The Government is running loose with ...
National Debt—Comparison with OECD Countries 5 Aug 2008
Hon Dr Nick Smith Who sold Air New Zealand?
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN Who bought back Air New Zealand is this Minister of Finance; the member seems to have forgotten that. In fact, I am the Minister of Finance who bought ...
Toll Holdings—Rail and Ferry Purchase 15 May 2008
Hon Pete Hodgson Can the Minister recall a debate in this House at the time of the purchase of Air New Zealand by the Government on 13 September 2001 when one member of this House said that the Government had “sent the commercial ...
State-owned Enterprises—Government Policy on Sale or Retention 15 Apr 2008
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... We will not sell off State-owned enterprises; indeed, we have bought back the rail-track and a great majority of Air New Zealand, and the Government is seeking an agreement to purchase Toll NZ’s rail and ferry operations.
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... seen a report stating that there was no reason why the Government owned the electricity State-owned enterprises or Air New Zealand. I have seen reports indicating support for a partial sell-down of State-owned assets. I have seen a report stating ...
Air New Zealand—Charter Flights 16 Aug 2007
Hon PETER DUNNE Did the chair of the Board of Air New Zealand inform him, as shareholding Minister, of Air New Zealand’s decision to enter into a commercial contract to fly ...
Hon Peter Dunne In view of what Air New Zealand’s chairman, John Palmer, has today described as a “no-surprises policy” with Ministers, and of the fact that the ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... been informed of this matter; and in the future I would expect to be informed of such a matter. But I would say that Air New Zealand approached the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade for advice, and received advice, on that matter But the ministry ...
Keith Locke Will the Minister, representing New Zealanders’ shareholding in Air New Zealand, be pushing for a management shake-up, after the gross violation of the company’s own charter principle—to “champion ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I repeat, Air New Zealand sought advice from what it—I think legitimately—considered to be the experts in the matter of New Zealand’s ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN Air New Zealand will certainly continue with charter flights, and some of those charter flights involve ferrying troops. But it is ...
Keith Locke Will the Minister be asking or suggesting to Air New Zealand that it donate the profits of its two charter flights to Kuwait to medical facilities in Iraq, to help treat those who ...
Keith Locke I seek leave to table the Air New Zealand company profile, which lists the guiding principle—
Heather Roy ... comments made by the Minister of Defence and of Trade that blamed Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials and Air New Zealand, has caused volatility in the Air New Zealand share price; and how much has the New Zealand taxpayer lost today from ...
Overseas Investment—Strategic Assets 7 Aug 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... will retain, ownership of major strategic assets, as well as buying back the rail network and majority ownership of Air New Zealand.
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... I am perfectly free to comment on the matter in relation to Auckland airport. Because I am a shareholder in Air New Zealand I am not free to be the Minister making the decision under the Overseas Investment Act.
KiwiSaver—Business Support 28 Jun 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I have seen reports from companies as diverse as Air New Zealand, Gallagher Animal Management Systems, and the New Zealand Exchange saying that they will adopt KiwiSaver because they ...
Kiwisaver—Employer Support 14 Jun 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... at 4 percent for those of its 1,100 workers who joined KiwiSaver. This is 4 years earlier than required. This follows Air New Zealand and the New Zealand stock exchange. I note that the New Zealand stock exchange chief executive officer, Mark Weldon, ...
Railways—Overlander Service 23 Aug 2006
Jeanette Fitzsimons Why is it that he is prepared to bail out Air New Zealand to the tune of $885 million and spend an additional $1.5 billion of taxpayers’ money on roads, yet sit back and watch ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN Because very few people travel on the Overlander, compared with Air New Zealand. We do not export anything via the Overlander. We do not bring large numbers of tourists into New Zealand via the ...
Aviation Regulations—Finance, Minister 29 Jun 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN Absolutely yes, where any such matter relates to my interest as the shareholding Minister in Air New Zealand.
John Key ... to assume, as Treasury did, that if he and the Minister of Transport were meeting the chairman and chief executive of Air New Zealand, there was a possibility that the subject of code-sharing would be raised; if not, why not?
Shane Jones ... Minister dealing with possible conflicts of interest arising from aviation regulation and the Crown’s shareholding in Air New Zealand?
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... Transport. Of course, in the mirror image, if matters were to arise at Cabinet relating to the ownership interest in Air New Zealand, then the Minister of Transport would take herself out of the room.
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN No, because I was aware that what was being particularly discussed were matters in relation to tourism promotion—Air New Zealand’s concerns around that—and some related matters to that. I think that if the member ever gets his head around asking me ...
John Key ... steps to mitigate the potential conflict of interest relating to that meeting and, in particular, did he write to Air New Zealand and make it clear that code-sharing, or any subject relating to that, was under no circumstances to be raised; if not, ...
John Key Does the Minister think, in retrospect, that it was appropriate to have had that meeting with Air New Zealand, in the presence of the Minister of Transport and two other Ministers, with no officials present and no notes taken, at ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN Yes. I have meetings with Air New Zealand’s chief executive and chairman of the board from time to time, and will continue to do so. I have no intention of being ...
Air New Zealand—Meeting of Ministers and Executives 28 Jun 2006
JOHN KEY Which Ministers and which Air New Zealand executives were present, for all or part of the time, at the dinner held at the Boulcott Street Bistro on 13 March 2006?
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... Minister of Tourism, Damien O’Connor; and, for part of the time, the Minister of Transport, David Parker. The only Air New Zealand executive present was Rob Fyfe.
John Key Does he agree with Air New Zealand’s chairman, John Palmer, who said over dinner that “The issue of the Tasman and, particularly, the impact of Emirates ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... discussed. The issue of Emirates Airline was discussed, because, of course, it had been having a severe impact upon Air New Zealand on the trans-Tasman route. Air New Zealand had proposals around joint Government - Air New Zealand action to promote ...
R Doug Woolerton Does the Minister believe that it is better to have dinner in a public place and discuss Air New Zealand and the welfare of the country, or to have discussions with the Exclusive Brethren behind closed doors?
John Key ... any of the points relating to the Tasman route that chief executive officer Rob Fyfe has previously raised: that Air New Zealand is losing tens of millions of dollars annually, that too many empty seats are hurting Air New Zealand’s profitability, ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I can confirm that what was discussed was that Emirates Airline has an impact upon Air New Zealand—primarily, of course, because that airline avoids downtime in Sydney by going backwards and forwards across the Tasman ...
John Key Can the Minister confirm that Emirates Airline is a competitor of Air New Zealand and Qantas on the Tasman route; when those present at the dinner discussed the impact of Emirates Airline, did anyone ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... there, as I am sure Opposition members have begun to grasp, is that the discussion was around how the Government and Air New Zealand might work better together in terms of tourism promotion. The Government had its own proposals at that point in time. ...
John Key If no one at the dinner talked about competition on the trans-Tasman routes, about the viability of Air New Zealand’s current schedules, or about the possible solutions to Air New Zealand’s problems, does that not make a mockery of—
Hon Trevor Mallard ... question, but he has already received an assurance that competition on the Tasman route between Emirates Airline and Air New Zealand was discussed. Therefore, to preface a question with: “If that was not discussed …” must be to doubt the word of the ...
John Key If no one at the dinner talked about competition on the trans-Tasman routes, about the viability of Air New Zealand’s current schedules, or about possible solutions to Air New Zealand’s problems, does that not make a mockery of the ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN As I said to the member in my previous answer, the issue of the impact of Emirates Airline as a competitor to Air New Zealand was discussed at the meeting.
Peter Brown Will the Minister clarify the situation; is it necessary for Air New Zealand to get the Government’s permission to get involved in a code-sharing arrangement with Qantas; if so, when is it likely ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... speaking, I could say that I do not have responsibility for that, but I have received advice on it, obviously. Yes, Air New Zealand does require that permission from the Minister of Transport. Because the Minister of Transport’s electorate includes ...
Air New Zealand—Meeting of Ministers and Executives 27 Jun 2006
JOHN KEY Were any officials present, or notes kept, at the meeting held on 13 March 2006 between senior Air New Zealand executives and a group of Ministers including himself, the Hon David Parker, and the Hon Lianne Dalziel?
John Key Does he agree that the Government has multiple objectives in respect of the proposed code-sharing arrangement between Air New Zealand and Qantas: that the shareholding Minister in Air New Zealand represents the taxpayer’s investment in the airline, ...
John Key Does he therefore think there is a potential conflict of interest involved in himself, as shareholding Minister in Air New Zealand, meeting with the chairman of Air New Zealand and the chief executive of Air New Zealand in the presence of the then ...
Peter Brown Will the Minister clarify the Government’s position as to whether it believes it is better for the public if Air New Zealand stands alone, with the risk of prices increasing because of a lack of patronage on trans-Tasman routes, or, ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... rightly pointed out, the Government has a number of different interests. My interest is as shareholding Minister in Air New Zealand and in the protection of the Government’s shareholding value in Air New Zealand. I play no part at all in any ...
Lynne Pillay Is it appropriate for the Minister of Finance, as shareholding Minister, to meet with Air New Zealand?
John Key ... to table the briefing advice from Treasury to Dr Cullen on 8 March, advising him that the issue of code-sharing with Air New Zealand could well be on the agenda.
Air New Zealand—Engineering Outsourcing 21 Feb 2006
SUE BRADFORD Does he believe that, as 82 percent shareholder of Air New Zealand, he should have been more proactive in finding a solution that would keep Air New Zealand’s engineering work in New ...
Sue Bradford Has the board of Air New Zealand shared with the Government shareholder its long-term strategic plan for this business; if so, does it show that what is ...
Dr Wayne Mapp ... to deal with ongoing problems with the Holidays Act and other legislation and issues of relevant daily pay, which Air New Zealand said added several million dollars to its costs, given that the Treasury briefing to the incoming Government that deals ...
Sue Bradford Is the Minister aware that Air New Zealand has also put the jobs of over 100 cleaners on the line by putting cabin-cleaning work out to tender; and as a majority ...
Sue Bradford How does the current Air New Zealand strategy of business transformation, which seems to involve slashing wages and jobs and contracting out, align with the ...
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... going into a lot of the detail, I think it is fair to say that many members of the House are aware that the future of Air New Zealand itself was at very serious risk when the Government bought back into it, and it is not out of the mire yet.
Air New Zealand—Engineering Outsourcing 8 Dec 2005
SUE BRADFORD What advice will the Government, as majority shareholder in Air New Zealand, seek on proposals from the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union regarding Air New Zealand’s engineering ...
Sue Bradford ... Minister, in light of the potential impact on shareholder value, considered seeking independent advice from outside Air New Zealand on this proposal or is the New Zealand Government shareholding simply a rubber stamp?
Peter Brown ... influence to assure this House that the engineers’ proposal will be given fair and meaningful consideration by Air New Zealand?
Sue Bradford Will the Minister ask Treasury and the Ministry of Economic Development to compare Air New Zealand’s proposals with those from the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union from a national interest so they might ...
Air New Zealand—Engineering Outsourcing 15 Nov 2005
SUE BRADFORD ... productivity, and high wage economy.”; if so, how does the loss of 600 high-wage, high-skill engineering jobs from Air New Zealand contribute to this goal?
Sue Bradford ... Industry Association that New Zealand will lose specialist engineering intellectual property and human capital if Air New Zealand maintains its long-haul aircraft overseas; and why does the Government not put its money where its mouth is, take a ...
John Key When did the Minister become aware of the fact that Air New Zealand was likely to lay off the 617 engineers, given the rumour that abounded that he was aware of this prior to the election?
Sue Bradford Has the Minister received any advice on what impact Air New Zealand’s decision to sack skilled Kiwis and to buy offshore will have on customer loyalty, and hence on the value of the ...
Air New Zealand—Engineering Outsourcing 15 Nov 2005
PETER BROWN Does the Government have any plans to assist the 617 Air New Zealand heavy maintenance engineers in finding further employment in New Zealand if Air New Zealand proceeds with its plans to ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... course, there is still some way to go in the discussions between the engineers union and the management and board of Air New Zealand.
Peter Brown ... out to an overseas contractor; if he does accept there is a difference, can he explain how as the majority owner of Air New Zealand he can allow work to be contracted out overseas, leaving 617 highly skilled New Zealanders jobless, after signing up ...
John Key ... of Judy Bailey and Susan Wood but that do not encourage this Government to apply similar pressure to the board of Air New Zealand in relation to 617 employees?
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... about is a reduction in salary for 600 airline staff; those staff will go down the road, according to the plan that Air New Zealand has announced. If the Opposition member wants to stick up for people who cry when they do not get $800,000 a year, then ...
Peter Brown ... the New Zealand Immigration Service, and will he immediately seek to have aircraft engineer removed from that list if Air New Zealand goes through with its plans to sack the 617 engineers?