<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mad_atta:
How did you manage this? I've never been able to pre-pay NZ departure tax, and it is a constant source of irritation to me!</font>
I've had tickets issued by CX, AA and American Express that were all prepaid (just like most countries in the world!) ... I assumed the system had changed and this was now the norm in NZ ... at least for early 2002 onwards. I don't recall any special comment about it by either the ticket issuer or at AKL (tickets issued by CX in HKG and the others in US, none in NZ). Maybe they don't do this for NZ/Aust issued tickets? Which would be very strange, indeed (but that seems to be how the tax works).