Am I being punked by Air New Zealand?
#31
Formerly known as tireman77
Join Date: Dec 2013
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Under current New Zealand Law, only flights over 90 seats are required to be screen anything less than 90 seats is optional. They looked at it a couple of years back, and NZ decided the cost out weighted the risk. Back in 2001 no domestic flights had screening at all, you used to just walk straight from check-in to the plane.
Most regional airports, are still just an tin shed. So to setup any form of screening, the cost would be huge.
Most regional airports, are still just an tin shed. So to setup any form of screening, the cost would be huge.
#32
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We are on a mini rwt with a 2 week stop in New Zealand
Booked a lot of flights within on aeroplan
KKE-AKL-NPE
Get to the Kerikeri Airport, check in our golf clubs one carry on
and then walk to the plane
Bags loaded on the plane NO SECURITY
We walk to the plane NO SECURITY
WE CONNECT IN AKL Watch our bags transfer between planes NO SECURITY
we get on plane NO SECURITY
WE FLY FROM NPE to WGN NO SECURITY
HAD TO ASK I was told only if you are flying on a jet, not a twin prop
YIKES!!!!
Booked a lot of flights within on aeroplan
KKE-AKL-NPE
Get to the Kerikeri Airport, check in our golf clubs one carry on
and then walk to the plane
Bags loaded on the plane NO SECURITY
We walk to the plane NO SECURITY
WE CONNECT IN AKL Watch our bags transfer between planes NO SECURITY
we get on plane NO SECURITY
WE FLY FROM NPE to WGN NO SECURITY
HAD TO ASK I was told only if you are flying on a jet, not a twin prop
YIKES!!!!
Of course there is no security for connecting in AKL as you have arrived from another airport in NZ and are likely in the domestic sterile area.
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#34
Join Date: Apr 2013
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I don't know about you,. but I would see no security as an added convenience (especially as I have no intentions to blow up planes.)
Of course there is no security for connecting in AKL as you have arrived from another airport in NZ and are likely in the domestic sterile area.
Of course there is no security for connecting in AKL as you have arrived from another airport in NZ and are likely in the domestic sterile area.
#35
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*thinks about the stuff I've had in my carry-on flying regionally*:
Wood saw
Full tool kit (complete with "box cutter"!... and several pointy objects)
Hammers
Fireworks (yeah.... forgot about those)
Scissors (not just piddly little ones... real scissors! )
What's the problem?
Wood saw
Full tool kit (complete with "box cutter"!... and several pointy objects)
Hammers
Fireworks (yeah.... forgot about those)
Scissors (not just piddly little ones... real scissors! )
What's the problem?
#36
Formerly known as tireman77
Join Date: Dec 2013
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As for the middle of nowhere and a small population... those are just more good reasons for moving there.
#37
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I moved here for those precise reasons - and they don't disappoint.
And my weekly Q300 commute is (mostly) a delight compared to the MAN-LHR shuttle I used to take.
And my weekly Q300 commute is (mostly) a delight compared to the MAN-LHR shuttle I used to take.
#38
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Random zip code or random five digit number? The reason I ask is that not every five digit number is a zip code. So it is possible that the system can check against known zip codes, but won't cross-check the actual zip code registered to that card. Most of my friends default to 90210 when prompted for a zip in the US as the only zip code they know!
#39
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It's interesting to know there are some workarounds.
For security reasons these machines all do a lookup of the zip code of the billing address of the card and if they don't match, it won't work. Since credit card skimming is so prolific in the US it was one a good way of minimising it.
I'd tried random ZIP codes on my NZ card and my OneSmart card and none have ever worked.
For security reasons these machines all do a lookup of the zip code of the billing address of the card and if they don't match, it won't work. Since credit card skimming is so prolific in the US it was one a good way of minimising it.
I'd tried random ZIP codes on my NZ card and my OneSmart card and none have ever worked.
I drove more than 6K miles in the US last summer, so bought quite a bit of gas, with only one place unable to run my card at the pump using a real VA zip code unassociated with my card (but that place could not handle my card inside either).
YMMV
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#40
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Random zip code or random five digit number? The reason I ask is that not every five digit number is a zip code. So it is possible that the system can check against known zip codes, but won't cross-check the actual zip code registered to that card. Most of my friends default to 90210 when prompted for a zip in the US as the only zip code they know!
#41
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*thinks about the stuff I've had in my carry-on flying regionally*:
Wood saw
Full tool kit (complete with "box cutter"!... and several pointy objects)
Hammers
Fireworks (yeah.... forgot about those)
Scissors (not just piddly little ones... real scissors! )
What's the problem?
Wood saw
Full tool kit (complete with "box cutter"!... and several pointy objects)
Hammers
Fireworks (yeah.... forgot about those)
Scissors (not just piddly little ones... real scissors! )
What's the problem?
I'm not quite sure what the guy at AKL thought my tone source / cable tester was when he saw it on the screen, but a square box with lots of wires coming out of it clearly registers as something suspicious!
#42
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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NZ same price as Canada
R u kidding
Coffee 1.50 tims 4.00 everywhere for a long black( which tastes like crap most places)
Even mcdonalds is double
Gas 1.78 a liter in NZ toronto i think is around 1.00
And so on
That being said, new zealanders are the most down to earth wonderful people on the planet.
We hated to leave after 2 weeks
Coffee 1.50 tims 4.00 everywhere for a long black( which tastes like crap most places)
Even mcdonalds is double
Gas 1.78 a liter in NZ toronto i think is around 1.00
And so on
That being said, new zealanders are the most down to earth wonderful people on the planet.
We hated to leave after 2 weeks
#43
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I've had fun watching them send one of my boxes back through the xray 5 or 6 times at the oversize luggage area.. It had a couple of nylon gears, and the rest of the box was packed tight with stainless steel shims, so for all purposes would have appeared totally opaque in those areas.
Surprisingly metal cased electronic control modules, cables and industrial joysticks in carryon didn't even get a second glance. But the steel ruler at the bottom of the laptop bag did.
Surprisingly metal cased electronic control modules, cables and industrial joysticks in carryon didn't even get a second glance. But the steel ruler at the bottom of the laptop bag did.
#44
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R u kidding
Coffee 1.50 tims 4.00 everywhere for a long black( which tastes like crap most places)
Even mcdonalds is double
Gas 1.78 a liter in NZ toronto i think is around 1.00
And so on
That being said, new zealanders are the most down to earth wonderful people on the planet.
We hated to leave after 2 weeks
Coffee 1.50 tims 4.00 everywhere for a long black( which tastes like crap most places)
Even mcdonalds is double
Gas 1.78 a liter in NZ toronto i think is around 1.00
And so on
That being said, new zealanders are the most down to earth wonderful people on the planet.
We hated to leave after 2 weeks
Currently, diesel is $1.00NZ/l. sounds about like in QC.
Didn't go to McD's. Sorry; but according to the Big Mac index, its cheaper than in Canada....
I guess I was swayed by some local air..... Still, I'd move there tomorrow!!!
#45
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However I agree with your overall comment that NZ is substantially more expensive than Canada, especially when you take into account what you actually earn there. A recent study ranked NZ as the seventh most expensive country in the world, hot on the heels of Australia as #6. Canada didn't make the top 15.