Air NZ Announcement Aug 1

[2PAXfly]

Air New Zealand launched three video promos with a 'spycraft' theme, which heralds an announcement on August 1. There are hints in the promos.

 

[RooFlyer]

If its anything like the last Qantas 'big announcement', they'll probably be announcing a change of butter provider in their business class ...

 

[Denali]

I thought the ad was announcing AB rugby team selections.... Maybe Japan flights?

 

[2PAXfly]

The mention the following:

• Vancouver (cold this time of year)
• Bay of Islands (Lovely!)
• Rugby Players (4 of them)
• Los Angeles (traffic tricky in rush-hour)
• Bagley Park (in Christchurch – ‘Beautiful in Autumn’)
• 777-300ER (‘Blueprint’ – with business class detail)
• ‘Apple’ (‘No’ – so not New York?)
• Buenos Aires (Spring has come early)
• Wellington (Can’t beat it on a good day)
• All Black portrait (-if I followed rugby, I might know who it is)
• Disguise (pilots hat and aviator sunglasses)

I'm going for something about flights between the Americas and NZ and Rugby, which I know little about

 

[AisleSeat]

2019 Rugby World Cup is coming up in September, in Japan.

Buenos Aires reference is for Argentina
LA is for USA
Vancouver is for Canada

I reckon there'll be a few more ads for the other countries.

Home | Women's and Men's Rugby World Cup

The official site of Rugby World Cup, with ticketing and event information, live streaming, news, videos, fixtures and results.

www.rugbyworldcup.com

 

[pauly7]

Fingers crossed it’s binning Airpoints

 

[Bundy Bear]

I thought it might just be a new in flight safety video featuring the All Blacks.

 

[2PAXfly]

Bundy Bear - I like your thinking

 

[AIRwin]

@Bundy Bear - you must have iNZider info?

 

[RooFlyer]

I thought it might just be a new in flight safety video featuring the All Blacks.

Correct, it appears:

Air New Zealand Rebrands As "Air All Blacks" For New Safety Video

Air New Zealand has just released their latest innovative safety video, which marks 10 years of the airline making cool safety videos. How is this one?

onemileatatime.com

 

[Denali]

Zero surprise, RU World Cup in a couple of months.

 

[21510702]

Anything is better than the previous rap safety video

 

[Mattg]

Anything is better than the previous rap safety video

I flew Air NZ this morning and the new “Air All Blacks” video was showing. I don’t think it was as good as many of their other videos, but certainly easier to understand than the rap video.

I did have to laugh that the current video actually acknowledged that the previous video is problematic.

Interestingly, on my flight last Wednesday they used the “summer of safety” video from a few years ago.

 

[henrus]

Interestingly, on my flight last Wednesday they used the “summer of safety” video from a few years ago.

Since they got rid of the rap video in January this year it's been the summer of safety video since. It's a slightly different version that's been edited for most aircraft to include things like "this aircraft has wifi".