I'd say it's a pretty bloody reasonable result considering the circumstances, you can't stand up forever to the kind of capacity dumping that EK is doing on their core routes (Oz & London) without having to go into defensive mode and downsizing after a while. Think I was surrounded by two A6-reg 777s and a 380, last time I parked at NZAA? Every country that parasitic airline goes into, it's the same story. I mean there's fair honest competition and then there's just
Good luck to the 441 good kiwis about to join the dole