Thanks Pakeha Boy for getting my drift.
Makes me wonder as to the "price or deal "Boeing gave ......it would seem that there are bigger things on the horizon and that these A/C will not be permanent "'domestic" A/C........
That next aircraft type must be the Embraer E-190 and if so then what will be the implications ?
First of all I say that the 737-800 will make huge losses and simply spoil the entry of better suited operators.
Second the Embraers will not lower fare costs. they will not provide airfreight capacity from provincial New Zealand towns who are begging for more air freight capacity. It may in the short term, but then P/Blue will switch to E-190s and the capacity will all vanish along with destruction of the previous Air NZ airfreight capacity.
It's like introducing a cancer to some smaller NZ centres.