Air New Zealand and Singapore to form alliance

[Fruitcake]

From Reuters wires:

16-Jan-2014 11:37 - AIR NEW ZEALAND LTD - AIR NEW ZEALAND AND SINGAPORE AIRLINES FORM ALLIANCE
16-Jan-2014 11:37 - AIR NEW ZEALAND LTD -AGREED TO FORM AN ALLIANCE ENABLING AIR NEW ZEALAND TO FLY THE AUCKLAND-SINGAPORE ROUTE AGAIN
16-Jan-2014 11:38 - AIR NEW ZEALAND LTD -AGREED TO FORM AN ALLIANCE ENABLING SINGAPORE AIRLINES TO OPERATE THE AIRBUS A380 TO NEW ZEALAND
16-Jan-2014 11:38 - AIR NEW ZEALAND LTD -A380 WOULD BE OPERATED DAILY BY SINGAPORE AIRLINES BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND AUCKLAND
16-Jan-2014 11:38 - AIR NEW ZEALAND LTD -CARRIERS WOULD AIM TO BOOST THEIR EXISTING CAPACITY BETWEEN NEW ZEALAND AND SINGAPORE BY UP TO 30% YEAR ROUND OVER TIME
16-Jan-2014 11:39 - AIR NEW ZEALAND LTD -PARTIES ARE SEEKING APPROVAL FOR THE ALLIANCE FROM THE COMPETITION COMMISSION OF SINGAPORE AND THE NEW ZEALAND MINISTER OF TRANSPORT
16-Jan-2014 11:39 - AIR NEW ZEALAND LTD -A380 OPERATIONS WOULD INITIALLY BE ON A SEASONAL BASIS
16-Jan-2014 11:39 - AIR NEW ZEALAND LTD -PENDING APPROVAL, FLIGHTS COULD COMMENCE AS EARLY AS DECEMBER 2014

There was a speculative piece on this in the AFR published earlier today, no doubt an update will be published shortly:
http://www.afr.com/Blogs/Opinion_Street Talk#378c4c26-7d62-11e3-b044-f948899a5f12

 

[markis10]

Air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines have agreed to form an alliance enabling Air New Zealand to fly the Auckland-Singapore route again and Singapore Airlines to operate the Airbus A380 to New Zealand for the first time.
The A380 would be operated daily by Singapore Airlines between Singapore and Auckland, progressively replacing an existing daily service with the smaller Boeing 777-300ER . Air New Zealand would launch daily services between Auckland and Singapore using newly refitted Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, taking over five flights currently operated by Singapore Airlines and adding two more weekly flights, increasing the frequency to daily.

http://theflyingsocialnetwork.com/s...airlines-join-forces-to-expand-new-zealand-si

 

[Fruitcake]

If NZ get line up with both SQ and CX it still gives hope that VA might be able to do the same.

 

[yohy?!]

seems like the VA joint ownership may have thawed relations a bit between SQ and NZ