Originally Posted by
anat0l
Well I'll be. That's new to me.
Fancy that the Trans-Tasman neighbours be requiring explicit visas to enter each others countries.
Has been the case for quite a few years. In reality, this is more a technicality. The stamp a NZ passport holder gets into the passport is called a Special Category Visa while for other foreigners it is just the arrival stamp.
NZ is moving to the same policy soon and actually refer to the Australian Universal Visa system.
Originally Posted by
Kiwi Flyer
FRANKFURT to BANGKOK (FRA-BKK) on Lufthansa 747-400 in first class
The Lufthansa first class meal service is always long and slow. I considered taking the express meal option but, since I'm travelling for another couple of days figured I could catch up the sleep later and chose the full meal service. Despite the light load, tonight was no exception to the languid pace. While I rather like eating slowly I do think they overdo it a bit on overnight flights as most passengers would not want dinner/supper to take over 2 hours and only finish more than 3 hours into the flight. Fine for a daytime flight, a bit long for overnight, I reckon
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Breakfast started 2 hours before arrival, so that makes over 40% of the flight time taken up with meal services!
Indeed one of the biggest I have with LH on many flights. And the problem is similar in C where meal service often start two hours a takeoff. And IFE is only switch on 1+ hours into the flight.