hope its not me, thursday my boss tells me 'you gotta go to NZ March on business but you can only fly AIR NZ or Emirates' so I thought I'd ask the forum's advice, I have to decide by monday, and I gotta say the response from the united forum has been great, unfortunately Air NZ will not have upgraded their fleet by the time I fly. Although the star alliance points situation leads me to favour their routing. if only they had more comfortable seats! Thanks again forum members for your help.