Air New Zealand Dreamliner delay pushes back Skynest launch

In a note to staff, the airline’s domestic chief executive, Markus Svensson, said the midlife aircraft would provide “bridging capacity” and receive new interiors to make they appear as-new to customers.

BITRE data from January saw 77.7 per cent of Virgin network flights take off on time and 76.9 per cent arrive on time compared to 75.6 per cent on both measures for the Qantas network, while Virgin’s network cancelled 0.9 per cent of flights, compared …