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Air New Zealand Rehires 720 Former Staff as Flights to Australia and New York Take Off

March 25, 2022
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Air New Zealand (NZ) has brought back former staff as borders open and gets ready to restart flights around the world. A spokesman for Air NZ told The Epoch Times that they had a total of around 720 rehires across cabin crew, pilots, and airports since March 1, 2020. “They’re really thrilled to be back,”…

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New Zealand Placed Under More Restrictions as Omicron Detected

January 24, 2022
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New Zealand has shifted to the most stringent level of its traffic light COVID-19 restriction system after cases of the Omicron variant were reported in its most populated city, Auckland, and the Nelson-Marlborough region. The shift took place just before midnight on Sunday, following a press conference by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern earlier that day. Ardern…

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‘Continued Border Uncertainty’: 20,000 Travellers Impacted by Axing of Trans-Tasman Flights

November 22, 2021
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Air New Zealand estimates 20,000 customers will be affected after New Zealand’s (NZ) flag carrier axed 1,000 flights to Australia saying uncertainty around international border policy forced its hand. Leanne Geraghty, Air New Zealand’s chief customer and sales officer, said that “due to recent statements by the NZ government that quarantine-free travel between Australia and…

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No Entry Into New Zealand for the Unvaccinated

October 4, 2021
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New Zealand (NZ) will bar all non-citizens over 17 from entering the country from Nov. 1 if they are not fully vaccinated. “To further reduce the possibility of the virus getting through our border, we are introducing the requirement for air travellers aged 17 and over, who are not New Zealand citizens, to be fully…

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