Star Gold Domestic Baggage Allowance
 

I'm a bit confused with the info on the ANZ site:

https://www.airnewzealand.com/checked-in-baggage

Looking to fly CHC-ZQN on ANZ. If I buy a seat+bag fare, would my *G (via United) entitle me to 2 bags?

Thanks!

Is that right? Should still be the piece system so it will be 2 x 23kg for *G.

I'm flying this itinerary on August 14 and contacted ANZ to confirm. Was told the following:

Thanks for this confirmation. As a Star Alliance Gold member, you can add an extra bag for no charge to the standard allowance for your fare (not a family member's fare), where the ticketed itinerary has two or more Star Alliance airlines. This policy would not be applicable to this booking, as this only has flights tickets on one Star Alliance airline, Air New Zealand. ^FC

Is this correct and I'll only be able to check 1 bag?

You were told wrong. Some years ago, NZ consulted *A on what the deal was in terms of Star Gold baggage rules on Seat Only fares. They were told NZ would have to honour Star Gold benefits on itineraries with 2 or more Star carriers, ie., Seat Only fares cannot be built into an itinerary involving another carrier. They took it to mean that they only need to honour this benefit involving 2 or more carriers. It is actually only Seat Only fares that they don't need to offer this benefit to. If you use the baggage calculator on NZ website it will still give you the correct advice despite footnote 1.

Star Alliance has recently updated the wording to this:

Extra Baggage Allowance

You can take an extra 20 kg (44 pounds) where the weight concept applies or an extra piece where the piece concept applies.

Some airlines do not offer this benefit on individual flights but only on connecting Star Alliance flights. Within Europe on "Light" fares offered by Lufthansa, Austrian & SWISS, "Check&Go" fares offered by Brussels Airlines and “Go light” fares offered by SAS as well as on “Seat” fares offered by Air New Zealand, the extra baggage allowance is not offered.

Flew today and got 2 bags. Thanks all for the help!

Whoaaa... does it really? How much savings have you seen in the past?

<div style="text-align:left;"><br /><br />Example: AKL-WLG<br /><br />.co.nz starting base fare - $49NZD<br />.com starting base fare $46USD (Around $71NZD)</div>

I plan to fly from SFO to ZQN. All flights will be with ANZ but Ticketing for international and domestic flights will be bought separately due to price difference and schedule constraints offered by google flights and Hipmunk. If I buy Seat” fares offered by ANZ, would I be allowed a free checked bag or extra weight allowance for carry-on as a *Gold member?

No.
No bag on Seat fares.

Got it. Thanks!

Actually, as *G you are allowed 2x 7kg carry on, i.e. a combined max of 14kg (1 carryon max 10kg).

No *A additional baggage on Seat only fare as noted above