Thanks for the kind words, folks!
Originally Posted by
stevenshev
I would like to hear your complaints as well about the VS/NZ seat (I have a few)
I covered a few of my complaints about the seat at the end of the first post:
"Now, I think it's fair to say that my report has been incredibly favorable towards NZ in all regards, minus the dinner service. Just to be fair I wanted to provide some of the negatives: The controls, which were on the left side of the seat, were incredibly easy to touch by mistake. Throughout the flight I must have pushed the table button at least five times, prompting it to come out. Just sitting against the left side of the seat caused the controls to switch. Furthermore, while I found the seat to be incredibly comfortable, I can imagine that the seat would be EXTREMELY claustrophobic or uncomfortable for a person of size. Another major issue which I noticed among all my NZ flights, or many foreign carriers, for that matter, is that individual air nozzles just don’t exist, which can make a flight extremely uncomfortable. Lastly, the PTV controls were somewhat cumbersome."
Any other complaints you can think of? Would love to compare and see if I noticed them or had an issue with them.
Originally Posted by
stevenshev
The UA 9xxT designation is a random letter chosen by UA to distinguish the domestic portion from the international one. For example, I was on UA 847K the other day, LGA-IAD, whereas UA 847 continued on to EZE.
Very interesting, I had no clue. That's weird because I fly a lot of international connectors, and almost never hear that, or maybe I just never paid attention. Learn something new everyday!^ Any clue what the reasoning behind it is?
Originally Posted by
WingnutSYD
Do you mind describing how exactly you paid for the trip? That is, was the whole thing covered by the 90K award? If not, which segments? Does the one award extend to the NZ flights as well?
Sure! TPA-IAD-LAX-AKL was covered with the award in C for 90K, as was AKL-SYD, and then SYD-AKL-LAX-IAD-TPA. It is basically a roundtrip to SYD through AKL with a stopover in AKL. While I was in AKL the first time around I bought cheap tickets for AKL-ZQN-CHC-WLG-AKL, which were under $300USD per person total. Keep in mind that the award portion is now 110K since the amounts went up.