Coronavirus - New Zealand
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@donsteppa said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
Capacity is going to be a big unknown in places like Queenstown and Wanaka that traditionally rely on itinerant labour.
Skifields struggled last year to keep up staff wise and the lucrative parts of the operation (Ski School) can't operate at anywhere near the levels they should.Hopefully that can be addressed in the circa 40% of MIQ spaces that the Trans Ta$man bubble will free up.
I suppose the big news is now in about ten minutes time...
April 19
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@godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
I was in Queenstown for Easter and it was packed. We tried to stop for lunch in Arrowtown for lunch yesterday before our drive home but couldn't find a park in town (they have carparks, they were just full).
Yeah I was there for a few days end or March. It was busy. Nice busy, not the overcrowded crap that had made me stay away.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@nta said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
June long weekend in Aotearoa ...
you owe it to your marriage mate...
Nah fuck it. Flights will cost a bomb and a bunch of shit might happen in the meantime.
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@nta said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@nta said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
June long weekend in Aotearoa ...
you owe it to your marriage mate...
Nah fuck it. Flights will cost a bomb and a bunch of shit might happen in the meantime.
you'd be surprised at the flight costs, pretty reasonable actually - they dropped > 40% today to pretty much what they used to be
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@nta said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
a bunch of shit might happen in the meantime.
Yep. I ain't going anywhere. The manager of a very nice place in Queenstown said to me the other day about an Aussie traveler " we will take your booking, we would love to see you but you carry the risk". He is booked out for ANZAC weekend and can sell the room. The Aussie just wanted to be there, and I don't blame him, but if you travel - caveat emptor.
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@snowy said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@nta said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
a bunch of shit might happen in the meantime.
Yep. I ain't going anywhere. The manager of a very nice place in Queenstown said to me the other day about an Aussie traveler " we will take your booking, we would love to see you but you carry the risk". He is booked out for ANZAC weekend and can sell the room. The Aussie just wanted to be there, and I don't blame him, but if you travel - caveat emptor.
for sure there is a risk - and it is very clear from all parties that the risk lies with the traveller. Great that we not get to make our own decisions about the risk though.
As an aside, interesting to see that Qantas didn't have or wasn't prepared to take a view on the bubble dates. I would have flown Qantas for sure for given I'm hooked into that FF system, but they had no flights available as of 1pm today - when I had another look just now, there are loads available - gutted!
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@nta said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@nta said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
June long weekend in Aotearoa ...
you owe it to your marriage mate...
Nah fuck it. Flights will cost a bomb and a bunch of shit might happen in the meantime.
especially when you look at the stunning incompetence that is our vaccine rollout and the lunacy of public sector response to single digit case numbers.
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@crucial Only about 5 flights a day (from AKL) and that includes the very early morning and late evening ones. So the other 3 are packed. I managed to get in early and got cheaper fares but they may have over done the flight / cost cutting too much.
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@snowy said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@crucial Only about 5 flights a day (from AKL) and that includes the very early morning and late evening ones. So the other 3 are packed. I managed to get in early and got cheaper fares but they may have over done the flight / cost cutting too much.
True. They may never go back to those cheap levels. I think that the airport itself may have some say in the schedules ie if you want to set up and fly here you need to do daily services. That means that the non peak (especially midweek) flights are used as promotional tools to make people have a look then talk themselves into those peak flights.
I'm going down there next week and ended up flying on a Friday morning so as not to get fleeced.
Luckily fluked what seems like a glitch on webjet for the return flight at $80.
(I usually book direct but a friend said he had seen cheap flights pop up on webjet then disappear if you left the screen and went back. I tried it and sure enough a couple of really cheap options came up. I grabbed one which then on the confirmation page after taking money said it was at 0400hrs rather than 1600hrs. Thought it was all a glitch that would be cancelled but then about 4hrs later received confirmation emails including, for some odd reason, the wholesale booking. Wholesale invoice showed that webjet paid $300 for a flight they sold to me for $80)
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@snowy said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@crucial Nice work! Webjet might need to look at their systems...
So your 0400hr flight is confirmed? Kidding.
Actually if you are going from Auckland it is a good time to go to the Airport.It reverted back to 1600 so my guess is that I saw a screen that was via a GMT system?
I seemed to see a bit of the background automated workings that you don't normally see.
Definitely all acted like a bug.My friend had missed his flight from there coming up and before paying for a re-book on the ticket was having a quick look on his phone at options when an $80 return fare popped onto the list. He realised that he didn't need return so went off the screen to change to one way then came back and the same flight was $300.
I haven't been able to replicate it but the flight is all confirmed and added onto my AirNZ app so I'm not complaining.
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@crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
It reverted back to 1600 so my guess is that I saw a screen that was via a GMT system?
I seemed to see a bit of the background automated workings that you don't normally see.
Definitely all acted like a bug.Yes, the airlines will all use a GMT / UTC booking system for obvious reasons. Did you book over the weekend of daylight savings (man I hate that expression, GOM) change?
I'm back down there in July - would be nice to reproduce the fault.