Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: South Island, New Zealand
Programs: Krisflyer, Qantas Frequent Flyer, Air NZ Airpoints, Koru, NZ*S and former *G
Posts: 317
Update - due to late regional flight (engineering issues with the ATR) we missed our connection to AKL. We were automatically reboked on later flight but had to literally run to international as we landed after our scheduled boarding time, and were the last 2 passengers onto the aircraft. So, no opportunity to ask in the lounge, but the PE cabin was full so we were just pleased to have made it and took our assigned E/F middle seats which were actually not anywhere.near as bad as I feared. I would certainly sit there again if it came down to it, in preference to Y, and would certainly do so long haul although window/aisle would still be preferred.
As as an aside the crew on the regional flight and Air NZ in CHC were very helpful, staff in AKL couldn’t have been much less interested (we were told to go to the sevice desk on arrival) and just said words to the effect “don’t wait for the bus you better just start walking, no you better run”. Thankfully we had carry on and didn’t need to wait for luggage and got a quick run through security which helped..