Originally Posted by
Jericho-79
My plan is to depart from EWR for AKL on November 6.
That's after the daylight savings changes (which means that SFO-AKL flight leaves a few hours earlier), which is why the flight number I mentioned won't be one of the options.
The options I can see for EWR-SFO are UA583 which gives you 1h40m to connect, UA1978 which gives 2h29m, or UA2080 which gives 4h29m.
If it was me, I'd be taking the middle of those - UA1978. 2 1/2 hours is longer than needed in most cases, but gives a good buffer in case the inbound is late. That said, the shorter option would have you connecting without much issue the majority of the time - but over the past week that flight has been over an hour late twice. On both those occasions you would have still had 30-40 mins to connect which is very doable, but it's obviously cutting it tight.