Originally Posted by
LHR/MEL/Europe FF
i wonder why they didn't do AKL-PVG with a PEK add-on a couple times a week? Or is it not allowed for foreign airlines to do that? (I guess there really aren't transit facilities in places like PVG... although maybe pax could have stayed on board...)
If they had the rights, they'd only be able to take passengers who are either going straight through to PEK or have booked NZ to PVG, stopped over there and then carried onto PEK at a later date. Same conditions as QF107 LAX-JFK - they can only take QF passengers connecting to a QF flight, no domestic only passengers allowed. And in this case, I wouldn't expect loads to be all that high. You're easier (and probably better off) organising connections with CA.