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Mar 29, 2018, 5:41 pm
#31
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: New Zealand (most of the time)
Programs: Air NZ Elite *G, Honors Gold, IHG Platinum Elite
Posts: 6,112
The weather will also impose challenges on departure as well. Realistically it's possible flights may get close to 17 hrs at certain times of the year with headwinds. Add in deicing on the ground and then ground delays during Winter and you're looking at some pretty long flights!
Mar 29, 2018, 9:37 pm
#32
Join Date: Sep 2017
Programs: Air NZ Koru, Air NZ ELT *G, IHG Spire Ambassador, Emirates, Flying Blue, QANTAS Club
Posts: 423
Mar 29, 2018, 9:49 pm
#33
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: New Zealand (most of the time)
Programs: Air NZ Elite *G, Honors Gold, IHG Platinum Elite
Posts: 6,112
Mar 29, 2018, 9:52 pm
#34
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: New Zealand (most of the time)
Programs: Air NZ Elite *G, Honors Gold, IHG Platinum Elite
Posts: 6,112
I suspect they've assumed that based on the fact Air NZ have only released the Southern Hemisphere schedule so far which only gives flight schedules up until the 31st March 2019.
Timings after that date will change with the NZ DST changes, and may possible move beyond x3 if presales on the route are good.
Timings after that date will change with the NZ DST changes, and may possible move beyond x3 if presales on the route are good.
Mar 29, 2018, 10:27 pm
#35
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Auckland
Programs: NZ*GE / EK*GOLD
Posts: 2,510
I suspect they've assumed that based on the fact Air NZ have only released the Southern Hemisphere schedule so far which only gives flight schedules up until the 31st March 2019.
Timings after that date will change with the NZ DST changes, and may possible move beyond x3 if presales on the route are good.
Timings after that date will change with the NZ DST changes, and may possible move beyond x3 if presales on the route are good.
Mar 29, 2018, 10:34 pm
#36
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: New Zealand (most of the time)
Programs: Air NZ Elite *G, Honors Gold, IHG Platinum Elite
Posts: 6,112
Mar 30, 2018, 9:44 pm
#37
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Auckland NZ
Programs: NZ Gold Elite, AS, AC, QF
Posts: 748
On the one hand I'm chuffed with the new service. On the other hand, in 30 years of travelling through ORD I have never had a seemless connection. Always at least one flight delayed: snow in winter and thunderstorms in spring/summer/autumn.
However, my strategy for that scenario is to book the tightest legal connection and have identified rollover options if the connection is a miss. Which usually serves me well. I dream of the day of direct service to JFK.
However, my strategy for that scenario is to book the tightest legal connection and have identified rollover options if the connection is a miss. Which usually serves me well. I dream of the day of direct service to JFK.
Apr 1, 2018, 10:14 am
#39
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: AKL, YUL
Programs: NZ*GE, UA*G
Posts: 323
Ah ok. So I guess we can expect that the NZ site, OTAs etc should start to populate their searches with WLG-BOS flights routed through ORD at some point soon then? At the moment I couldn't get any search to yield WLG-AKL-ORD-BOS on the same ticket, but I guess it was just launched so perhaps the databases take awhile to update...
