Full state ownership may not save anymore jobs and would lead to the airline becoming a political tool used as a bargaining chip every election. Also it would make a joke of competition in NZ, how would Soundsair, Air Chatham, Origin, Jetstar etc possibly complete with a SOE, they would have to be allowed to operate competitively..... hell why not nationalise all of them. You certainly would have to subsidise competitors in some way to level the playing field unless of course you don’t view that their jobs are as important as yours and that is a whole other argument. Any aviation package needs to be distributed fairly to ALL entities that serve NZ.