Air NZ First With The Dreamliner…
So, the airline with the dreamiest business class gets The Dreamliner first. Can’t wait to fly it.
Having just flown to Tokyo with American I hope every AA exec at some point gets to fly Air NZ – they are everything you should be. Stunning and comfortable interiors, great food that also flys the flag for the Nation’s produce, terrific service (employees empowered to do great work), and an upgrade program that works. (To earn loyalty you have to reward it with action, not token miles).
Saying that, boy could Air New Zealand do with some help on the Web and in reservations in the US – just getting to talk to someone (if you can find a 1-800 #) is a shocker of a process. And, why just encourage me to fly to NZ with you. Having won my loyalty, I’ll give you my San Fran to UK business as well…
An Awesome Achievement…
Kiwi conquers Everest – Mark is a double amputee…
NZ Defnitely Not For Sale…
A comedic incident makes the front page of The Reg.
An Australian man, obviously a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock, tried to flog off Aotearoa* on online auction site eBay.
Bidding started at just one cent, and 6,000 hits and 22 bids later, only AUS$3,000 was offered for the “half gallon, quarter acre, pavlova paradise” before eBay pulled the auction.
Now, as El Reg points out, Aussies have been stealing from Kiwis for years – pavlova, Split Enz, Sam Neil, and Russell Crowe, to name a few. Remember, it was El Reg that said it, but…
But even for a nation of convicts, their latest attempt at a land grab rates as the biggest case of green eyed monster we’ve seen yet.
But if they did have a clue they’d know that eBay is zippo in NZ. Local firm TradeMe is the leading auction site in the country. So, if you were hoping to wind us up you might have chosen an auction site that we actually use.
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Speedy Kiwi…
Ok, so Kiwis are a slow moving nocturnal bird…. Not this Kiwi though:
Ian Wright has a car that blows away a Ferrari 360 Spider and a Porsche Carrera GT in drag races, and whose 0-to-60 acceleration time ranks it among the fastest production autos in the world. In fact, it’s second only to the French-made Bugatti Veyron, a 1,000-horsepower, 16-cylinder beast that hits 60 mph half a second faster and goes for $1.25 million.
The key difference? The Bugatti gets eight miles per gallon. Wright’s car? It runs off an electric battery.
Wright, a 50-year-old entrepreneur from New Zealand, thinks his electric car, the X1, can soon be made into a small-production roadster that car fanatics and weekend warriors will happily take home for about $100,000 – a quarter ton of batteries included. He has even launched a startup, called Wrightspeed, to custom-make and sell the cars.
Ian, if you need a test driver, I’m in Silicon Valley as well… 🙂
For you Kiwis…
Maitland’s developed a cool little widget for keeping an eye on traffic – which can be as bad in NZ as anywhere.
