FAIRIES ARE REAL!

Well they are at Air New Zealand . Click here for the story of Polly wants her cracker back.

We reckoned we were short changed a cracker or two with our cheese on an air New Zealand Koru hour flight late last year.

The Airpoints Fairy today delivered kapiti port wine, kikorangi blue and egmont cheeses with two big boxes of crackers. We shared them with our workmates and a few more people learned about the Fairy.

Since day one we thought that the Airpoints fairy was a great marketing concept. Its not that she grants really big wishes every day - although she has granted some pretty cool ones - its that every day she grants someone a wish. Ours was to get our cracker back.

We did - well done Air New Zealand.

NBR IS ROARPRAWNS NEW BEST FRIEND

We subscribe to NBR because it is fearless fun and Jock Anderson writes some good yarns and today that nice young man Chris Keall decided to follow up on our quest to get our Cracker back..

AirNZ has answered the call of Mr Keall, apparently it was all a mistake. We have yet to hear from the airpoints fairy

POLLY WOULDN'T FLY AIR NEW ZEALAND

Today on our way back from Auckland on flight 415 tonight we got out favourite " Koru Hour " treat. A couple of chunks of Kapiti cheddar and Camembert, three grapes and three plain water crackers.

Now we have always have a bit of trouble putting the cheese on the crackers - the slices of cheese are big - we estimate 6 crackers worth. So three is not tidy. Its a battle. First a big bite of cheese and then a nibble on the cracker - done delicately so it doesn't disintegrate. It is mildly entertaining to see if you can get thru the lilliputan feast with out getting crumbs everywhere.

So imagine our dismay and the dismay of some close by passengers, when we discovered the three cracker pack had suddenly been hit by the recession and was now a two cracker pack.

"What was the story?" - we asked the gooooorgeous purser Steve.... ( Actually we were delighted we had a reason to talk to him.. bootiful he is and funny. He's our favourite mile high trolly meister)

Well he said the two crackers pack came as a bit of a surprise to him as well.

We can understand if the airline skimped a bit on the cheese - after all its the expensive bit of the uppish market munchies but to deprive us of the third cracker is - so to speak - nuts.

We are going to ask the Airpoints Fairy to look into this mile high canape calamity as well..

We want our cracker back!

FAIRY DUST

OH we have just discovered the airpoints fairy for Air New Zealand ! what a cool idea... We like it lots..