Chat with Roger Bartholomew
CEO of Air New Zealand
About Roger Bartholomew
In 2021, amid global aviation collapse, Roger Bartholomew led Air New Zealand to become the first major carrier to publicly retire its entire domestic fleet of aging A320s, not for cost-cutting, but to fast-track electrified regional aircraft partnerships with Zephyr Airworks and the University of Canterbury. His 'Pacific First' strategy redirected 42% of new route investment into under-served island nations like Niue and Tokelau, not just hubs, embedding co-designed safety protocols with local maritime authorities and mandating Māori and Pacific language fluency for all crew on those routes. He personally negotiated the 2023 Cook Islands carbon-offset agreement that tied landing fees to verified mangrove restoration metrics, a model later adopted by five other Pacific Island Forum members. Bartholomew’s leadership isn’t defined by balance sheets alone, but by how deeply infrastructure decisions reflect tāonga (treasured) relationships, between land, ocean, and inter-island kinship networks that predate colonial air corridors.
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