There is relatively little data available about the New Zealand aviation sector from public sources. What is available is summarised in a report I wrote recently.

This report was produced as part of a project funded by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Tourism. We are working on it jointly with the Centre for Air Transport Research at Otago.

The main conclusion of the report is that, in contrast with what is available in Australia from the BTRE, for example, there is relatively poor public information about New Zealand aviation. This inhibits stakeholders (e.g. the tourism sector) from fully understanding New Zealand aviation. It is also likely to be an impediment to the development of more intense competition.

We are going to summarise and publish what public data is available — watch this space. The existing data is scattered over a number of different sources and so we are going to pull it together into one place which will at least make it easier to access.