Thread: Air New Zealand, Apples....

Just to make it 100% clear, if any of you guys or your friends want to charter an Air New Zealand jet (or anything else they got in the hanger) to fly anywhere whatsoever, that's just fine by me. I'll stick with Qantas thanks. Yer want an apple?

Tasman war of words worsens

By TRACY WATKINS - The Dominion Post | Tuesday, 21 August 2007

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Trans-Tasman relations have nosedived, with both governments warning each other to butt out of their domestic affairs.

Debate on an 85-year-old dispute about apples, a senior Australian politician's visit to a strip club and Air New Zealand helping to fly Australian troops to Iraq have combined to create an icy chill.


Erebus article censor found at Air NZ By JOHN HENZELL - The Press | Tuesday, 21 August 2007

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An Air New Zealand computer was used to sanitise an online encyclopaedia article to make the airline look less culpable for its part in New Zealand's worst peacetime disaster.


An article about the 1979 Erebus crash on Wikipedia, an internet encyclopaedia able to be edited by users, was altered to state "pilots are divided to this day as to whether the responsibility ... should rest with the pilot or the flight planning department" over the deaths of 257 passengers and crew.
The alteration, which has since been deleted, was identified this month as coming from a computer using the Air New Zealand server.
An Air New Zealand spokeswoman said the company was investigating the allegation.
But Cabinet minister Jim Anderton said that, if true, the change was "outrageous (and) entirely erroneous". It was a case of the airline – now 80 per cent owned by the Government – trying to rewrite history to make itself look better.