Kate Hawkesby
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A lot of people come into the country and spend a lot of money for Auckland.
So that's good.
But there were hundreds of people from all over the world who are in the business of tourism.
Air New Zealand, once again.
So yes, they're beleaguered at the moment.
Yes, they've got problems.
But you saw the announcement this week, three new routes out of Christchurch.
That Perth thing, by the way, and I couldn't tell you at the time because I knew, but I couldn't say.
I didn't want to break the embargo.
But the Perth thing is a lot of it's about the fly-in, fly-out thing, and that's massive.
And you can't argue with the fly in, fly out thing.
And that's why they've gone to Perth, because obviously it's one thing to go to Tokyo.
It's another thing to go to Singapore.
You fully understand that.
But then I said to Nicol the other day when he told me, I said, why Perth?
And he goes, fly in, fly out.
It's massive.
And so they're tapping into that.