Originally Posted by
jbalmuth
What is your actual destination city? Are you going to be having to race from Wellington to Christ Church on New Years Eve?
And are you currently located closer to London Heathrow or Frankfurt?
The CX flights look more desireable to me, but I don't envy a 5+ hour stop in Hong Kong. It's really not enough time to safely get downtown, and yet it's at least 2+ hours too long in the lounges. If you use that itinerary, be sure to get your boarding pass stamped when entering the first CX lounge so that you can wander around and try them all.....
I have flights before and after that I'm not too concerned about - in the OW itinerary, have a flight on Jetstar on the morning of the 1st to CHC, so no issue there and the other flights are LH to FRA or BA to LHR, which I've flown many times, so I don't need any advice on those - I know what to expect already. I don't plan on visiting HKG during this 5-hour layover. That would be on another visit. Just sitting in a lounge somewhere until the next flight. I have the same long layover on the *A itinerary - over 4 hours in SIN, so either way I'd have to endure a longer than usual stop but one cannot time all flights perfectly and I'll be flying business, so expect to be well rested that this won't be an issue.