What's happening to the seat arrangement on inaugural NZ699?
Aug 27, 19, 12:04 am
#46
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Aug 27, 19, 1:15 am
#47
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Dunedin, New Zealand
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Did IVC-AKL-IVC for leisure yesterday, followed by IVC-AKL for work this morning. Having sat on both sides of plane, would recommend sitting on the right northbound. Sunrise over Southern Alps this morning was beautiful.
Aug 27, 19, 4:47 am
#48
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Incidentally only 20 miles further than IVC-INV.
I should pitch the Invercargill Inverness Loch Ness Express to Shane Jones and Tim Shadbolt. I'd go to Inverness just for the duty-free.
Last edited by ps107; Aug 27, 19 at 11:21 am
Aug 30, 19, 7:36 pm
#50
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Sep 2, 19, 2:30 am
#51
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When you say two people on scanning are you meaning two standing there operating the metal detector? Most of the delays at ZQN (35 mins for me last Wed and 25 the previous Sat) are because they use a single xray and metal detector but only ever one have one Avsec staff member manning the metal detector which means every time it goes off the whole queue stops.
Proper process should be to have two staff so while one is doing the pat-down that others can continue to be screened.
Proper process should be to have two staff so while one is doing the pat-down that others can continue to be screened.
Sep 2, 19, 4:10 pm
#52
Join Date: Apr 2013
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My Grandma walks to ZQN most days (probably has for the last decade) and even she was shocked at the queues the other day...she was waiting for someone and the 45 mins she was there the queue was all the way back to the baggage claim area...It wasn't even school holidays
On my last two recent domestic trips the international queue was back to the Koru stairs and I was told it was a good day.
Sep 4, 19, 3:16 am
#53
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Thankfully I haven't had to fly out of there for a while, but sounds like it has deteriorated. It's not like the number of flights have massively increased either?
