Chance of low fares
PA Auckland Air New Zealand and British Airways will be asked to provide blocks of 100 seats on their joint London service. These would be sold at a fare of about $750 return.
Africa, Mr Weaving’s group is buying whole planeloads of seats and offering them to members at two-thirds of the cheapest return fare. The idea proposed by Mr Weaving in Auckland yesterday is a part-charter: a block of seats on a scheduled service bought at a charter rate. “I would ask Air New Zealand, ’You tell me which days of the year are your worst for passengers?’ and I will buy 100 seats on a bad day. “If they can identify the rough days and sell me 100 seats each way I will buy I them,” Mr Weaving said.
The fare would cut $450 off the present cheapest rate authorised by the Ministry of Transport. Behind the move is Mr Stuart Weaving, the Jerseydomiciled president of the Friendship chain of associations working through the “Old” Commonwealth, including New Zealand. Between Britain and South
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