NZ dollar is very strong recently, until this changes it may be better to originate your OWE in Canada, esp. if you can buy 1 less continent. Probably the NZD will fall 20% by March, but not much help if you need to buy now. Due to the Americas Cup it is almost impossible to get F seats into AKL now (and QF is stopping F service AKL-LAX soon, switching to 2-class).