Originally Posted by Amilo

I had a flight with 220 ticket RIX-FRA-PVG-AKL with the last leg being NZ on 2023 Nov. Bag was checked in without any issues all the way to AKL.
In my case I had to go to NZ desk (before immigration), they gathered a group of people and transferred us through hidden entrance to another terminal w/o having to do immigration. I also saw people continuing forward with BR (EVA Air) which underwent the same procedure successfully.