Originally Posted by flyrights
And the crazy thing about this trip is that I'm actually on my way to TAHITI, from Bangkok where I live, so I have to go via Australia, (Japan flights to Tahiti are too infrequent for me)...
what about via AKL? NZ has a very affordable AKL-PPT C fare at NZ$1900 and now that EK is flying BKK-AKL there should be reasonable connections