What's at stake: Regional airline customers are pushing back on significant price hikes and declining service standards as smaller airlines have seen their margins trimmed with spiralling compliance and spare part costs.
Background: Northern regional airline Barrier Air says cutting frequency and ramping up fares is potentially still not enough in the wake of a difficult operating environment.
Key players: Barrier Air, Grant Bacon, CAA, airline customers.
Civil aviation levies, airport fees and spiralling spare part costs have made flying regional routes “nearly impossible”, Barrier Air chief executive Grant Bacon says.
The airline, which serves the Auckland to Kaitaia, Great Barrier Island, Whitianga, Tauranga and Kerikeri routes, has trimmed
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What's at stake: Regional airline customers are pushing back on significant price hikes and declining service standards as smaller airlines have seen their margins trimmed with spiralling compliance and spare part costs.
Background: Northern regional airline Barrier Air says cutting frequency and ramping up fares is potentially still not enough in the wake of a difficult operating environment.
Key players: Barrier Air, Grant Bacon, CAA, airline customers.
