Originally Posted by
taupo
Welcome to the NZ corner of FT and awesome username, what's not to like about pork/bacon and beer.
Seaprof, you and I are some of the few North American based NZ FT'ers.
Not sure if you have flown NZ's Premium Economy yet, but it is delight when compared to any other NA based carrier.
AKL-LAX/SFO-AKL can be hard to upgrade. If hitting Gold Elite is possible then go for it as it dramatically increases your UG chances.
Somehow missed all the replies on this thread.
- I had just forgot to update my FlyerTalk profile, I'm based in Auckland now.
- Looking like I'll be enjoying Premium Economy on my LAX-AKL return flight. 4 days out and the upgrade stills says pending. Zero available J seats when I search on the airNZ website.
- I'm Gold now, should hit Elite this year, very much looking forward to the immediate-upgrade-clearing thing
Side question: we booked a flight from AKL-SYD in Nov. My wife is about to hit Elite status so we were going to use her Gold RUs to go from Y-J but the AirNZ website says "upgrade unavailable". There's plenty of J availability. Any idea what could cause that? Should we try calling?