30 April 2021
Breakfast Update – Air NZ Board
It was great to host the Board of Air New Zealand in Southland!
Air New Zealand board members chairman Dame Therese Walsh, deputy chairman Janice Dawson, Robert Jager, Dean Bracewell, Jonathan Mason, Laurissa Cooney, and Linda Jenkinson were in Invercargill today for a breakfast with Southland Chamber of Commerce members.
Dame Therese Walsh, said domestic services into the city were at 94 per cent of what they were pre-Covid. She also said cargo freight had increased more than four-fold on Invercargill to Auckland flights, from 1.6 tonnes a month before the pandemic to 6.7 tonnes a month now.
Read more in The Southland Times article: Invercargill ‘punching above its weight’, Air New Zealand chairman says.
The Southland Chamber is proud to have a long standing MOU and values our relationship with Air New Zealand. They are also one of the Chamber networks national partners.