Air New Zealand's (NZE:AIR, ASX:AIZ) group capacity fell 4.8% year on year in March due to reduced aircraft availability from global additional engine maintenance requirements, according to a Friday filing with the Australian and New Zealand bourses.
Long-haul international available seat kilometers (ASKs) decreased 6.9%, short-haul international ASKs fell 1.1%, and domestic ASKs were down 4.1% compared with March 2024, per the filing.
New Zealand's flagship airline carried nearly 1.6 million passengers in March, down 7.2% from 1.7 million passengers in the year-ago period.
Year-to-date, the number of passengers carried was down 3% to 12.1 million compared with 12.6 million in the prior-year period.
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