He amuamu mō ā Araraurangi Aotearoa utu tīkiti rāroto nui rawa
Monday, 28 April 2025
Kua whakamāoritia tēnei pūrongo e tētahi hinengaro rorohiko, ā, kua hihiratia e te kaiwhakamāori a Puna, a Joel Maxwell, nāna te pūrongo i whakapai hoki i mua i te whakaputa hei pūrongo reorua. Nā Straker me Microsoft te hinengaro rorohiko i whakawhanake.
This story, originally in English only, was translated into reo Māori by an AI tool then checked and edited by Stuff kaiwhakamāori Joel Maxwell before publication as a bilingual news story. The AI tool was developed by Straker and Microsoft.
Mēnā kua ngana koe ki te tāpui i tētahi mutunga wiki inā noa nei, tērā pea i ohorere koe nā ngā utu rererangi nui rawa.
If you’ve tried to book a weekend away recently, there’s a good chance you were shocked by the eye-wateringly high flight prices.
He raru tēnei e whakaea anō nā runga i ā Araraurangi Aotearoa utu whakaohorere i ngā mutunga wiki roa, me ngā hararei kura, whare wānanga rānei, ināia tata ake nei.
It’s a problem that’s resurfaced with Air New Zealand’s recent shocking long weekend, school and university term break prices.
Ko tētahi o ō tērā wiki upoko kōrero e whakaatu nei i te pakiwaitara o tētahi matua i Waiariki, ko Scott Koster, nāna i tuku i tētahi nawe ki te Te Komihana Tauhokohoko i muri mai i tana mōhio ki te iti iho o te utu hei rere atu ki Ngā Ānahera, i te rere mai i Waiariki ki Pōneke mā Araraurangi Aotearoa.
One of last week’s headlines was the story of Tauranga dad Scott Koster who filed a complaint with the Commerce Commission after finding out it was cheaper to fly to Los Angeles than from Tauranga to Wellington with Air New Zealand.
“Ka rere ahau, ia-te-ahunga, mō te $640 i te Noema, nā reira he iti iho te utu ki te haere atu ki Amerika i tētahi haerenga ki Pōneke,” hei tāna ki tō RNZ Susan Edmunds.
'I'm flying each way $640 to Los Angeles in November, so it's cheaper to go to the States than it is to go to Wellington,“ he told RNZ’s Susan Edmunds.
Kua ngana a ia ki te kawe i te utu hei rere atu tāna tamāhine ki tōna whare wānanga, ā, ka kīia e a ia he iti iho te utu i tenei wā mō tā tāna tāmahine eke pahi ki Tāmaki, me te eke Uber ki te papa rererangi, ā, me te rere mā Jetstar ki Pōneke, i te rere mā Araraurangi Aotearoa mai i Waiariki ki Pōneke kē.
He’d been trying to fly his daughter back to university and said it was currently cheaper for her to take a bus to Auckland, an Uber to the airport and then fly Jetstar to Wellington than it was to fly on Air New Zealand from Tauranga to Wellington.
Read this story in English here.
Ko te utu mai i te $430 ki te $735 kotahi-ara.
The price was anything from $430 to $735 one-way.
I tuhituhi a Andrea Vance o te Upoko o te Ika i te Rātapu mō ngā utu a te waka rererangi, he aha hoki i uaua ai te whakahau i a rātou.
The Post’s Andrea Vance wrote on Sunday about the airline’s prices, and why policing them is so hard.
Heoi anō, e kī ana ngā kaihaere o Te Taurapa o Te Waka kua tapahia rātou i ērā atu o te whenua e te whakahekenga o ngā ara, te rangirua me ngā utu heahea.
Meanwhile, Southland and Otago travellers are saying they’ve been cut off from the rest of the country by reduced routes, uncertainty and crazy prices.
Ko tētahi matua e noho nei ki Pōneke o tētahi akonga ki Ōtākou, nāna i hiahia kia kite i tāna uri i te kainga mō te hararei waenga kaupeka i tēnei Āperira, i ohorere ki te kite i te iti iho o te utu kia rere atu ki Poihākena mai i Pōneke i te wā kotahi.
A Wellington-based parent of a student at Otago University, who wanted to see their child at home for the midterm break this April, was surprised to find they could fly from Wellington to Sydney around the same time for less.
Neke atu i te $500 te utu iti rawa a Araraurangi Aotearoa mai i Ōtepoti ki Pōneke, ara-kotahi, i a rātou e rapu ana, kua whakairia e rātou i runga i te pāpāho pāpori.
The cheapest Air New Zealand fare from Dunedin to Wellington was over $500 one way when searched, they posted on social media.
“E mōhio ana ahau me whai monihua a Araraurangi Aotearoa, engari kei te haraki tēnei,” kua kīia e rātou.
“I get that Air NZ needs to make a profit, but this is ridiculous”, they said.
Kātahi ka kī ai te Minita mō te Waipounamu, a James Meager ko te tikatanga me te tūhonotanga o te rererangi ā-rohe tōna “tino whakaarotau”.
Minister for the South Island James Meager has consequently said regional flight reliability and connectivity is his “top priority”.
“Kei te whakaaro mātou he aha ngā hipanga me ngā pūtea penapena ka taea e mātou te whakapai ake i te tūhonotanga waka rererangi ā-rohe, tae atu ki ngā huringa ture,” tana kī atu ki te Otago Daily Times i te Wenerei.
“We are considering what steps and investments we can further take to improve regional air connectivity, including regulatory changes,” he told the Otago Daily Times on Wednesday.
I whakapaea e te Āpiha Pūtea Matua o Araraurangi Aotearoa a Richard Thomson te pikiutu tukipū mai i te mate urutā Covid-19 mō te pikinga o ā te kumupene utu rerenga.
Air New Zealand's Chief Financial Officer Richard Thomson blamed cost of inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic for a rise in the airline's airfares.
I kī atu a ia ki te tō RNZ Checkpoint kāore te kumupene i te tīkaro utu.
He told RNZ’s Checkpoint the airline was not price gouging.
“E tino aroha ana mātou ki te iwi whānui, e mōhio ana ahau kua tino piki te utu o ngā rererangi i roto i ngā tau e toru, e whā rānei.
'We are hugely sympathetic to the travelling public, I know the cost of airfares over the past three or four years has gone up significantly.
“Kua piki katoa ā mātou utu i te mutunga mātotoru o te 30 ōrau i roto i ngā tau e toru kua taha, ā, e mārama ana ki te whakahaere i tētahi umanga ohaoha toitū, me mātua whakarite mātou e kitea ana i roto i ngā utu rerenga.”
'All of our costs have gone up by the thick end of 30 percent over the last three years, and obviously to run a sustainable economic business we need to ensure that is reflected in airfares.“
Kua tonoa atu a Araraurangi Aotearoa mō te kōrero.
Air New Zealand has been approached for comment.