Originally Posted by
intuition
Yeah, I don't even think JL has a direct AKL flight. They offer TYO-SYD-AKL (but if that is covid related or has "always" been so, I don't know). So if there ever was an AY flight, JL could codeshare it.
Nor sure if it was NRT-AKL but at the time of the Fukushima accident, a friend of mine visited NZ and he flew HEL-Japan-NZ, on a nonstop flight from Japan to NZ.