The government should own a significant shareholding of a national airline?

On average, everyone agrees with significant nonconsensus between 72 voters.

Reasons To Disagree

Gummint has no legitimate place in business.

Airline competitors are chomping at the bit for piece of the market pie - if the national carrier is doing so badly to succumb to the competitors, then it deserves to fade away into history where it won't be using our tax dollars to maintain it's failures.

Not necessary.

It is not the place of government to run any commercial concern. By owning such they are in effect making us all shareholders in a company open to business risks; they do not have the right to do so.

Reasons To Agree

Yes, at this stage at least.

All countries seem to do it, or at least bail out their airlines. Seems to be in the national interest that an airline serves NZ national interests. If Qantas took over, we would be relegated to a provincial service like Tasmania, and how many people would come to NZ if they had to transit in Sydney?

As a small nation we need to own this asset

This is an investment that will make NZ richer