Air NZ has form when it comes to helping the military industrial complex 

1. Id says that AirNZ has a depth of greatness but know by and large Corporate NZ lacks depth and judgment and wisdom which comes out of an accumulation of knowledge of humans if difficult situations over a long period of time. This contract and many many others like it should have been kicked upped. The whistle should have been blown. Just cancelling the contract is an insult, and it’s not AirNZs fault. What has AirNZ got 50 years or so of history. I regularly fly AirNZ and not once did they intend harm but the tragedy is AirNZ has caused substantial harm. Not the loss of a $3 million contract but harm to our reputation but more importantly harm to the underclass.

   First, this type of corporate hypocrisy is old stuff now. AirNZ has been caught pulling in a different direction to the values and principles of a decent human being. AirNZ may have succeeded in aiding a crime against humanity but I am proud to say not today. Now AirNZ has to offer huge somes of money and continuing somes of money back to the taxpayer the right way.

   This is important we have to tell the AirNZ board that we keep quiet and the money just magically appears in treasury coughers with no comebacks or backhanded comments. And I’m saying nzd$1 billion dollars back to Yemen for economic development, from AirNZ via The New Zealand Government. No games, no political points scorring. Y’all shut your mouths and pay the penants. Thats that.

2. Cash flow has often been a problem, and it is worse than ever now. Ethics are a cost factor for bean-counters. Don’t expect it to get better.

   • Those Air NZ bean-counters include not only John Key’s nomination as PM-in-waiting, Christopher Luxon MP, but also the man himself, John Key. He was a board member of Air NZ until December 2019. He’s got blood on his hands, too!

     • It turns out many councils across NZ have ‘blood on their hands’. And they won’t do anything about it (well not until it’s too late) because it costs money…a lot of money:

       ‘A lead contamination scare in a south Otago town is sounding water quality alarm bells around New Zealand, with one expert saying he would refuse to drink the water in some areas.

       Earlier this month Dunedin council told the communities of Karitane and Waikouaiti that their water supplies had been returning traces of lead up to 40 times the safe level.

       Spikes of concerning lead levels had been present since August, with six of the 90 tests over the last six months showing elevated lead levels.

       More than 1,000 people in the area have now had blood tests and the results are expected back soon. In the interim, the communities have been offered free water supplies and free fruit and vegetables.

       Although the reason for the contamination is not yet known, cast iron pipes with lead joinings – some more than 100 years old – are suspected of tainting the supply, and 4km of them are currently being replaced by the council.

       The scare has caused alarm nationwide, as the water infrastructure in many towns and cities is decades old.

       Experts have been appointed by the director-general of health to conduct a rapid review into how the contamination occurred, and the response to it by public health officials.

       Water NZ technical manager Noel Roberts, who monitors the country’s water supplies, told Radio New Zealand’s Checkpoint programme that councils around the country were closely watching the situation in Otago, as there were thousands of old cast iron pipes nationwide, and limited money for regular lead testing.

       Roberts said there are “a lot of ticking time bombs” regarding water infrastructure in New Zealand, especially among cast-iron and asbestos-lined pipes.

       “They were expected to have a lot longer lifespan than what they are. They’re finding in the New Zealand environment that they are falling apart prematurely than planned,” Roberts said.

       Roberts said councils are frequently reluctant to upgrade water infrastructure as it is costly, and there is no national database of where older and problematic pipes are located, meaning targeting problem areas is impossible.

       There were some towns in New Zealand were Roberts refuses to drink the water, as “some of those [councils] have never been compliant in 20 years.”

       New Zealanders needed to have a wider conversation about the national quality of their water supply, Roberts suggested. “That would be, I think, a great benefit to New Zealand.”

       Contaminated drinking water is not uncommon in New Zealand, with 5,000 people falling ill and four dying in 2016 after sheep faeces contaminated Havelock North’s water supply 430km southeast of Auckland.

       The country’s capital city, Wellington, has frequent issues with sewage pouring into the harbour and city streets.

       A 2017 government inquiry found that 20 per cent of the country’s tap water was not up to standard, with as many as 750,000 New Zealanders exposed to drinking water that was “not demonstrably safe”. .

       .https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/12/ticking-time-bombs-otago-lead-scare-shines-light-on-new-zealands-ageing-water-infrastructure

       ‘By failing to protect our water we have failed everything New Zealanders value’

       https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2020/apr/17/by-failing-to-protect-our-water-we-have-failed-everything-new-zealanders-value

3. There seems to be lot of arse covering going on by Air NZ and looking at those making the apology it looks like they don’t care as they seem more concerned about getting caught out. Air NZ big wigs sound like john key when he said he didn’t know what shares he had as they were blind shares. Air NZ hierarchy must think we are dumb and stupid with all the spin coming out of their mouths.

4. There seems to be lot of arse covering going on by Air NZ and looking at those making the apology it looks like they don’t care as they seem more concerned about getting caught out. Air NZ big wigs sound like john key when he said he didn’t know what shares he had as they were blind shares. Air NZ hierarchy must think we are dumb and stupid with all the spin coming out of their mouths.

5. It’s been nearly ten or so yrs since I last spoke to anyone who worked with TAE at RAAF Amberley QLD, back then it was still an AirNZ subsidiary company.

   Where I asked a question over a few beers at RAAF Bowls Club about overseas Defence Contract work.

   The answer given, Is there is a list of approved countries vetted by NZ’s MFAT, Oz’s DFAT, with both the Australian Defence Dept & NZ’s MoD approval as well. Plus it had to IAW the various Arms Treaties, end user certifications & 3rd party IP licensing etc. If a certain country was not that list or there were certain caveats to a certain country, then prior approval was to be sort with the various government departments for a risk assessment, Security also including Political assessments and any other associated assessments like the UN and or arms treaties etc.

   So yes MFAT & NZ MoD should’ve been told that AirNZ was bidding as a 3rd party contract for the repair of the Saudi Navy Gas Turbine Engines.

   Now my theory at what possibly has happened, since the selling off those so-called “Non Core AirNZ assets” of TAE and Safe Air to Foreign owners. That AirNZ has lost the Subject Matter Expertises in dealing with Foreign Defence Maintenance Contracts at Senior Management level and possibly even at Broad level as it was no longer in the game to say the least. It all sounds like it was done on the hoof at AirNZ senior to broad level management to raise funds etc.

   Had they still owned the likes of Safe Air, TAE and had AirNZ made those Engineers including those with Military Contracts experience still working redundant. Then AirNZ would’ve still had the correct SOP’s & Management Teams in place to prevent this almighty cockup. Obviously some muppet thought it’s just an engine and no would be silly a enough to ask silly questions?

   P.S both TAE and Safe Air were sold off and I believe under the orders of NZ Treasury, Bling English & old mate Donkey as they were “Non Core Assets” according to the Informal Defence Rumour Network I belong to.

   Also here’s another rumour doing taps atm.

   That Pacific Aerospace (PAC) which is NZ’s sole remaining Aircraft construction company is being liquidated by its Chinese owners. This Company was allow to be brought by the Chinese under the last National Government under the guise from the NZG & the Foreign Investment Office that the Chinese promise of keeping all Aircraft design & construction it in NZ.

   So much so, for the National wanting to invest NZ STEM Training as they promise during the last general election, when theylet/ approve this sort’ve crap, closing down Hillside Workshops and forcing AirNZ to off load it’s two of its so-called “Non Core Assets” TAE & Safe Air which btw used to do about 90-95% of AirNZ’s Military Contracts both local & overseas.

6. I would love it if someone in the media requested to see who signed the contract between Air NZ and the Saudi military??
   And if Luxon’s signature is on the agreement then it would prove he has deliberately lied to NZers. Still lying is a National Party habit.

7. Okay, so now Air New Zealand says it has been providing logistical and technical assistance to Erdogan’s regime in Turkey as well. Seriously? The country’s a human rights disaster zone and it sought no guarantees that such assistance would not be used against peaceful protest or ethnic minorities such as Turkish Kurds or others?

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