A few mixed reviews have been circulating on Air New Zealand's PE service.

Thought I'd start a thread for people to put their own mini-review of what they thought of the PE service. If you could cut and past the bold headings below and just pop one or two points down about what you thought. I'm hoping that we can use the responses to figure out as a community whether the positives all have something in common and if the negatives have something in common (eg. aircraft flown, route, seat no., day/night flight), enabling us to book PE seats and flights more wisely.

These are the headers I was hoping to use:

Route / Plane
Day/Night flight
Seat No. (aisle / window / middle)
Check in ok?
Seat comfort (width ok?)
Legroom
Ease of getting in and out
Food
Drink
FA attentiveness
AVOD
Would you do it again?

I'll start with my brother's comments on a recent flight. Some info missing, which I will add after I speak to him nextL

Route / Plane - AKL - SFO 777

Day/Night flight - Night time departure (I think)

Seat No. (aisle / window / middle) - One of the middle ones in the PE cabin

Check in ok? - Very quick, very pleased

Seat comfort (width ok?) - No problem with seat size

Legroom - Good for sitting long periods

Ease of getting in and out - Difficult even with extra legspace

Food - knew it was going only to be Economy + cheese, but was disappointed anyway

Drink - Good wines but were only offered with prompting

FA attentiveness - Fine, except for drink top ups

AVOD - Huge imporvement over the old "share a movie", sometimes slow but good selection

Would you do it again? Maybe - he thought it was pretty average for the price difference, although seat pitch was good for long haul