In responce to your question on you blog re: Open Letter to Air NZ “That’s a different spin from BNZ’s reason for changing – “Air NZ had made some changes in the way Air New Zealand Airpoints Dollars can be earned through credit cards”. Can anyone explain that?”….short answer is that Air NZ changed the T&C’s with BNZ and other banks when it came to how airpoints were earnt.
Obviously it seems the contracts between AirNZ and the banks came up for renewal, and AirNZ decided to change some things.

So it is very unfair to be blaiming BNZ for something that is quite frankly out of their hands. They do have the Globalplus card which still gets airpoints, so quit your moaning, shutup and switch over!!

1) I only stumbled upon this a couple of weeks back when – by coincidence – I rang to check on their redemption T&Cs (paraphrased response – ‘this has been on the cards for a while and this Air Points redemption has closed for all but Platinum members’). If you knew, why not tell me as soon as possible.

2) If you’ve known for some time, it’s quite likely you knew when I applied less than three months ago. BNZ are (or should be) aware this is the primary awards program benefit, so should advise if it’s in jeorpardy.

Anyway I like BNZ (especially the staff at the Queenstown branch), so have transfered to their Global Plus card. Transferring all my direct debits again has been bloody painful though.

Also, with Global Plus Platinum, you can get up to a $200 Airpoints advance which is cool.