this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour straight after this programme. a very warm welcome to a special edition of talking business weekly with me. let s go take a look at what is on the show. the airline industry is roaring back to life after covid and thinking about how to get us back on board so here we are at the airline passenger experience summit in long beach, california. this is where you can find everything from the next generation of in flight tvs to the seats in the fit. it is where the airlines work out what we want to make our journey is even better. investing in the future, it can be a pricey affair, especially when covid has cost you billions. the big boss of air new zealand will tell me how he is reshaping things after getting through some of the words toughest lockdown restrictions and once you ve got all those passengers on board, how do you feed and entertain them? well, i m going to taste so
it used to cost you 116,000 bucks to fill the tanks and that went up to $96,000, that is more than double. those levels are not sustainable and i m wondering where do you get a point where you re going to have to pass that on or onto the passenger? we already are. interesting that not just on long harboured in our domestic business as well. the good thing is, over a period of time it is quite cyclical, sure, prices will move, but at this stage they do need to reflect that. those are the figures that it costs us to fill one of those planes. it represents the third of the price of the ticket on a long haulflight. when i m on board up there i get a little package and i tell you what, in flight catering is big business. worldwide some 7 million meals a day are served on planes in this industry is worth some $15 billion but it is not all a fancy fare for many of us because with airlines under pressure to cut costs, many are serving snacks.
designing the layout i ve got a little bit of extra space plus a door on that particular cabin. then you ve got and then you ve got a normal economy. they may have actually been able to squeeze in slightly extra legroom for a few more rows of going to call that a stretch product. you ve got sky couch then we ve got sky nest. so what we are doing is, in a reasonably tight cylindrical tube, were giving real customer segmentation and i think that is to be a point of differentiation. just want to briefly be a point of differentiation. just want to briefly ask about the soaring fuel costs because i ve heard you not long ago say that one of your typical trips from auckland to los angeles, roughly a 13 hour flight, it is to cost you 116,000
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