I keep reading on here how hard it is to book flights on Air New Zealand.

I just booked, for a friend, a coach ticket PHL-SFO-AKL, AKL-SYD, SYD-SFO-PHL, on my first choice dates (to align with my own travel on AKl-SYD, SYD-SFO). ^^

The hardest part of the entire trip to book was PHL-SFO. He's stuck with an all day lover in SFO.

She told me that there was "plenty" of availability on SFO-AKL, for most of August.