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Monday, April 22, 2024

Professor Robert MacCulloch: Is Air NZ telling us the full truth in its stock exchange profit announcement?


Air New Zealand has announced to the Stock Exchange that the company's expected earnings before taxation for the year have fallen $10 million from $200 - $240 million to $190 - $230 million. "Air NZ has continued to see softening in revenue conditions over the fourth quarter both domestically and on the North American market," the carrier stated. Funny how the airline always conflates domestic and international routes in its reporting.

Can Air NZ please simply cough up with the numbers that everyone wants to see and that it refuses to tell us? How much of its $190 - $230 million earnings comes from domestic profits and how much of it comes from international profits? Even though Air NZ is majority owned by you and me - the tax payer - it won't tell us who it is making money from - which is probably you and me again - not overseas tourists.

Sources:
http://nzx-prod-s7fsd7f98s.s3-website-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/AIR/429878/417101.pdf

Professor Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He has previously worked at the Reserve Bank, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics. He runs the blog Down to Earth Kiwi from where this article was sourced.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

And also the soft subsidy of Govt. employee travel which always bias towards maximum cost so as capture maximum tax evaded air points for the traveler, not the people paying, again a subsidy.
On the old tax forms one had to sign and state that there were not other payments received in kind or cash.
Who committed fraud and who still does.

Anonymous said...

Good question.

Peter said...

Oh come on Anons, get with the programme. They're just like those Ozzie banks, rorting us handsomely, and they without even bending the knee to the mythical sky waka.