Barack Obama's NZ trip may have backfired for airline1 NEWS 1 NEWS political reporters Katie Bradford and Andrea Vance discuss the latest on the tiff. OPINION: Air New Zealand needed Shane Jones this week like it needed a hole in the head. Air NZ are canning flights out of Kapiti. Anyone who thought Jones would hand back his free ticket to the Obama dinner after taking its sponsors to task doesn't know Jones, meanwhile. That performance didn't just bring Jones' political career back from the brink, it gave him newfound profile.

Source: Stuff March 23, 2018 15:56 UTC