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Taranaki's tourism arm has been having an early morning meeting to go over what it can do to stem any cuts to Air New Zealand's flights.
New Plymouth mayor's Max Brough is blasting the airline for a second day after it announced it may have to adjust its network and schedule amid high fuel prices.
"At a personal level, I'm a loyal dog by nature and I'm struggling to get that loyalty kindled when they start treating us like this all the time, to be honest," Brough said.
He told Morning Report 1000 people a day go through the city's airport and the prospect of cuts of timing changes was "a bit of a worry".
"We just can't have it," he said.
"We've all been encouraged to up the standard of airports, and we've all gone through them. I think we've spent about $60 million on ours in the last few years and it's largely paid for by arrivals, by landing costs," he said.
"But when I look at this picture, regional airports get the whipping all
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