Air New Zealand Air Points - Int to Dom seperate bookings - how many airpoints?

Hi all,
Wondered if someone could clarify, I have a few international flights coming up and will be booking domestic flights to meet these flights under a seperate ticket. They will be both dom to int and int to dom flights with plenty of time inbetween etc.
Question is, are the dom flights treated as normal domestic flights or as domestic legs of the international intinery? eg, 10 airpoints or the normal domestic earning rates?
This could influence what type of ticket you get (eg buying a cheapo one when you would earn 10airbucks anyway..)
cheers
dj

If flights are WLG - AKL then AKL - HKG with flights on NZ or *A then you would get only 10 airpoints for the domestic flight.

The system looks at the sequence of flights before calculating the number of airpoints for the domestic flights.

Yep.. even with different *A airlines...on completely separate tickets...

Yes, even on completely unrelated tickets! :mad:

(I flew PER-AKL, stopped in AKL for several days, suddenly had to go to WLG, so flew WLG-AKL, and only got 10 A$ instead of 19. Then flew WLG-AKL-WLG, then WLG-MEL, then MEL-SIN, on separate tickets, and it all got screwed up!)

It is stupid.

Having an argument at the moment with airpoints where they are claiming the reduced earning I got (different situation to the OP) was because it was all on one ticket - if I booked on separate tickets I would have earned more. bah - they can't even be consistent in their attempts to rip us off. :td:

It IS irritating... my next trip is a real mix of bookings... NZ SYD-AKL-HKG then - of all things - an award flight on CX - then back to *A flights onward to the US......


I will NOT be surprised to be only credited the "partner" rate for the HKG flight..... even with the OW flight inserted in between it and any REAL "partner" segments.... I hope it doesn't happen... but I'm sure not holding my breath!;)

NZ's Airpoints computer can do some strange things.

I live in Auckland. A while back I flew AKL-SYD-AKL, then a week later I flew AKL-LAX-AKL.

The AP system managed to combine the SYD-AKL and the AKL-LAX into a single trip and deducted the appropriate number of AP$ from what I had earned.