Editing Air New Zealand (section)

===Outsourcing maintenance===
On 19 October 2005, Air New Zealand proposed outsourcing most of its heavy maintenance on its long-haul aircraft and engines, which would result in about 600 job losses, mostly in Auckland.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zealand |first=Air New |title=Air NZ proposes outsourcing engineering services {{!}} Scoop News |url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0510/S00355/air-nz-proposes-outsourcing-engineering-services.htm |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=www.scoop.co.nz |language=en}}</ref> Air New Zealand said that there were larger maintenance providers that could provide maintenance work more cheaply due to their large scale. The proposal was estimated to save $48 million over five years and came after many attempts to attract contracts to service other airlines' longhaul aircraft.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zealand |first=Air New |title=Air NZ To Outsource Wide Body Heavy Maintenance {{!}} Scoop News |url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0602/S00260/air-nz-to-outsource-wide-body-heavy-maintenance.htm |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=www.scoop.co.nz |language=en}}</ref>

Eventually, a union proposal to save some of the remaining jobs was accepted. The proposal included shift and pay changes (most of them pay cuts) which would allow about 300 engineers in Auckland to keep their jobs. 200 were made redundant or resigned.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10369829|title=Air NZ engineers accept deal|newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|date=24 February 2006}}</ref>