Is Air NZ’s dominance of domestic routes costing consumers and its bottom line, too much? – Vaughn Davis

Opinion byVaughn DavisNZ Herald·21 Sep, 2026 05:00 AM5 mins to readVaughn Davis is a former Air Force Hercules pilot who holds an Air Transport Pilot’s Licence. He is also the creative director of Auckland advertising agency The Goat Farm.Air New Zealand chief executive Nikhil Ravishankar.Among the many contributors to Air New Zealand’s recent $242 million after-tax loss was the cost of providing services to some of our smaller regional centres. There will be plenty of reasons for that – not least being the ongoing sky-high cost of jet fuel – but somewhere in the