JONATHAN HILL: The Air NZ refund saga - who benefits and who should own our airline?

JONATHAN HILL: The Air NZ refund saga - who benefits and who should own our airline?
Jonathan Hill
The Air New Zealand refund saga has already deeply damaged what has long been New Zealand’s most trusted brand. In keeping customers’ money to effectively bail it out, bigger questions must now be asked as to who should actually own the airline. In the interests of full disclosure, my family has approximately $8,000 sitting with Air NZ for trips we have paid for and which the airline can no longer provide. Let’s be clear: that’s hardly Air NZ’s fault. There’s two schools of thought here: &...

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