Originally Posted by
wheresmybagba
Not really. Even before the aircraft arrived in SYD it would've had an updated arrival time into AKL...and that arrival time would be taking into account the anticipated duration of the flight. Clearly on the day, the actual operational specifics could be taken into account rather than the published schedule.
I agree. However I'm inclined to think the 1320 arrival time was not anticipated or communicated to the OP in SYD otherwise they would have been told 'you have one hour to make your connection, there is no need to worry'.
Obviously EK didn't think they'd arrive at 1320, or there wouldn't have been a problem (unless the OP has left that out of the story, which is possible)