TIM HAZLEDINE: What to do about Air NZ?

TIM HAZLEDINE: What to do about Air NZ?
Tim Hazledine
It was soon after six o’clock in the morning of Tuesday, September 24, 2004, and I was in the green room at Television New Zealand, desperate for a decent cup of coffee.  With me was Mr (later Sir) Ralph Norris, then the chief executive of Air New Zealand. We were both waiting to go on air to discuss the previous day’s decision by the High Court to disallow the airline’s application to form a cartel with its closest rival, Qantas, on grounds of likely substantial lessening of competition.I had been strongly opposed to the...

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