Airways Corporation of New Zealand Ltd v Geyserland Airways Ltd Airways Corporation of New Zealand Ltd v White Island Airways Ltd - [1996] 1 NZLR 116

Aviation — Airport services — Airways Corporation charging regime — Corporation notified "standard terms of contract" as basis of charging for services — Ability of corporation to charge when user denied acceptance of standard terms — Civil Aviation Regulations 1953 (Reprint SR 1980/88), regs 93 and 149A.

Contract — Consideration — Monopoly service provided by Airways Corporation — Pre-existing duty to provide air traffic control services — Whether performance of duty prevented giving of service amounting to consideration.

Contract — Formation — Acceptance — Whether conduct could be regarded by offeror as acceptance when true intent of other party known — Request for air traffic control services when scenic flight operator denied acceptance of terms of contract.

Corporate bodies — State-owned enterprises — Charging for SOE services — Whether Airways Corporation could charge on a commercial basis for air traffic control services previously charged by regulation — Whether corporation obliged to supply services — State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986, s 4.