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Hot on the heels of a recent multi-million dollar half-yearly loss, there’s some light on the horizon for Air New Zealand. On Tuesday, Air New Zealand released its latest traffic statistics. The results are mixed, but Air New Zealand is close to hitting 50% of pre-pandemic traffic numbers. In particular, the airline’s all-important domestic business is performing well.
Air New Zealand is closing in on 50% of its pre-pandemic passenger numbers. Photo: Airbus
In January 2021, the Air New Zealand Group carried 583,000 passengers. That’s 43.8% of the number of passengers the airline flew the previous January. In the financial year to the end of January 2021, Air New Zealand has carried 4,587,000 passengers. Over the same period across 2019/20, Air New Zealand flew 10,370,000 passengers.