I belong to a Facebook Group called Air New Zealand and its origins.
Really interesting group that covers Air New Zealand and NAC from its origins till today. As Air New Zealand fucked up its 75 year anniversary with a book that that was 50% dominated by PR shit to do with the All Blacks and very little to do with the staff that built the company, this FB has filled a very worthwhile gap. I think that piece of shit and the lacklustre response to 75 years was under the Luxon stewardship but I may well be wrong!.
Any how I was struck by a post by an ex Air New Zealand hostie, or trolly dolly, as they were titled by the less enamored of their exalted titled status, today on the site
She disclaimed how proud she to be from AOTEAROA, and to have worked for Air New Zealand. Umm I thought to myself I could put a comment on her post and probably get the Red Baron Treatment or I could go where the hides are tougher.
So It thought to myself what if she had been from New Zealand and worked for Air Aotearoa?
Well dear reader you can see immediately it just doesn’t fuck’n work!
Air Aotearoa
if you worked for Air New Zealand, you are proud!. You are proud of what a great airline it was, you are proud because it flies our flag. You are proud because it was built by cis whitemen. You are proud because you are a New Zealander. Even when I fly other airlines I always look for Air New Zealand aircraft.
You are proud to be a New Zealander because it tells the world who you are and where you come from!
Even that prick Willie Jackson, who no doubt flies first class, when he flies the flag, is proud of it and hasnt the the intelligence to recognize the irony.. And what was the Maori contribution to the advancement of man learning to fly…well first you had to invent a wheel, and they hadnt got there yet when they signed the treaty with a majority of “X”s
Makes you think. It will always be New Zealand because no dumb c**t wants to fly Air Aotearoa.
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They used to brag about the tourism industry been bigger than farming, so changing a well known name won’t help, because all that proud history will be forgotten.
You are quite right. The Maori name for New Zealand in 1840 was Niu Tireni, a transliteration of New Zealand.
Historian Michael King exposed the myth once and for all when he pointed out that Aotearoa was selected and popularised as a romantic Maori name for our islands by Pakeha writers such as William Pember Reeves and Stephenson Percy Smith in about 1897.
During Ardern’s time it was New Tyranny
I still can’t believe they got rid of their teal livery – about as stupid a move as the idea of Coca Cola changing the colour of their cans.