Now you would think with the price of fuel and impending carbon tax that the brains ???? of this company would be looking at the article below. Not new about 2 years old. A lot of airlines around the world have taken this option. Qantas again left behind.
The idiot in charge of engineering, who has done nothing since he got here except slap new paint everywhere even came from ANZ.
Then again that would go against the plan to close this once great airline.
The new blended winglets being fitted to Air New Zealand’s fleet of Boeing 767-300ER aircraft are delivering 19 percent higher fuel savings than forecast, the airline
said Tuesday.
The news brings the airline’s expected fuel savings on its fleet of five 767s to more than 7 million liters a year, cutting 18,400 metric tons of carbon emissions, and allowing the planes to fly farther, climb faster and deliver payloads more efficiently.
Four of the airline’s 767s have the winglets, while the fifth is being refitted and is scheduled to be back in service with the winglets in early November. Aviation Partners Boeing developed the 3.4 meter-high winglets.
“The installation of the blended winglets is part of Air New Zealand’s on-going drive to be the world’s most environmentally sustainable airline,” David Morgan, the airline’s says general manager of airline operations, said in a news release.