{"id":15106,"date":"2025-06-15T16:56:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T21:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15106"},"modified":"2025-06-15T16:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T21:56:01","slug":"air-new-zealand-to-boost-long-haul-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15106","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand to boost long haul travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story by Air New Zealand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Customers travelling to North America will have access to more than 34,000 additional seats, alongside a boost of 20,500 premium seats across the wider long haul network. The airline is also bringing up to seven newly retrofitted 787 Dreamliners into service by the end of the year, offering a completely refreshed inflight experience from nose to tail.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the airline will operate 8% more seats to the United States and Canada compared to the previous year, including a 15% increase in premium seating.<\/p>\n<p>With premium demand continuing to rise, Air\u00a0New\u00a0Zealand is delivering, with an additional 4,300 premium seats on Asia services alone.<\/p>\n<p>Air\u00a0New\u00a0Zealand Chief Commercial Officer Jeremy O&#8217;Brien says New Zealanders&#8217; desire for travel is strong, and international visitor demand continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the link to read the full story! -&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnewzealandnewsroom.com\/press-release-2025-air-new-zealand-boosts-long-haul-travel-with-more-premium-and-north-america-seats-this-summer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Air New Zealand boosts North America service<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Air NZ\u2019s $35m retrofitted Dreamliner takes off on inaugural passenger service | Stuff.co.nz\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wa1qsWZ5u9c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Air New Zealand Customers travelling to North America will have access to more than 34,000 additional seats, alongside a boost of 20,500 premium seats across the wider long haul network. The airline is also bringing up to seven newly retrofitted 787 Dreamliners into service by the end of the year, offering a completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,5676,10355,868,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline-news","category-international-news","category-diversity","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15107,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106\/revisions\/15107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}