Why Air New Zealand is Awesome

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They Have the Best In-flight Safety Videos

How did an airline safety video become the highlight entertainment of a flight? Air New Zealand managed to do this with some hilarious ways of presenting the usually boring but necessary safety video. We are talking about the themes of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Men in Black, swimsuit models, rugby, disco, and more. Plus, some famous faces help out, such as Bear Grylls, the All Blacks, Betty White, Elijah Wood, Peter Jackson and Sylvester McCoy.

Honestly, if you haven’t seen them, just take a look at our Top 8 Air New Zealand Safety Videos.

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Get a Taste of New Zealand Before Arrival

Air New Zealand is pleasingly Kiwi, from the Maori designs on the uniform to experiencing the famous Kiwi hospitality. If coming from overseas, it’s a real taste of New Zealand before arriving in the country. The in-flight crew will do their best to make the flight as comfortable as possible: have a pillow, have a complimentary snack and beverage on domestic flights, eat heaps of meals on the international flights, etc. No worries!

As said before, you’ll see New Zealand’s great sense of humour with the airline safety video too.

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The Planes Look Like This

Air New Zealand made the flight of Smaug possible by sticking the dragon onto a Boeing 777-300. That’s not the only creative planes in Air New Zealand’s fleet. There have been other designs inspired by The Lord of the Rings, Air New Zealand’s anniversary, and the All Blacks rugby team.

In general, many of the planes have a cool silver fern design over a black background. Nothing gets more New Zealand than that!

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They Take Their Anniversaries Very Seriously

When it’s an Air New Zealand anniversary, you can expect a lot of celebrations in the form of promotions and competitions.

For their 75th anniversary, for example, amongst other competitions, the airline hosted the classic Kiwi quiz show “It’s in the Bag” on their regional flights. The in-flight crew also dressed in the vintage uniforms. Plus, an exhibition was set up in the national museum Te Papa in Wellington, just to show how culturally significant Air New Zealand is!

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The Food is Good

Airline food is notorious for being bad, so anyone’s expectations as the trolley makes its way to you are not high. The meals provided with Air New Zealand are surprisingly good!

If on an international flight, expect meals to be multicultural dinners, such as curries, mashed potato with spiced meat, or a kumara salad with a side of the famous Kapiti ice cream. For breakfast, you’ll either get continental or a hot breakfast like scrambled eggs, sausage and beans. They’ll almost always include yoghurt, milk and a fruit salad.

On a long-haul flight, you’ll be well-fed as food seems to come at you every 3-4 hours. Oh, and there are complimentary beverages of the alcoholic and soft drink variety.

On a domestic flight, you will be offered water, a hot beverage and a snack. Success!

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You Get Great Value for Money

Considering how the overall journey experience is with Air New Zealand, they are pretty affordable (well, to airline standards). Sometimes, Air New Zealand can be the cheapest option with their long-haul flights so are worth checking out.

In terms of domestic flights, Air New Zealand has some insanely cheap deals on grabaseat.co.nz.