Saturday was my travel day.
I flew from Montana via Denver to Los Angeles and then boarded Air New Zealands NZ5 to Auckland.
My backbag didn’t though! I already was informed in LA, that my bag still was in Denver. (Strange thing, that United Airlines or Denver Airport or whoever wasn’t able to transfer the bag within 3 hours from one plane to another…)
Flying Air New Zealand is a really good experience. If you book early enough and can choose your seats, I recommend picking a seat in row 43 or 53 if your plane is a B747 or row 53 if it’s a B777. Those are the rows at emergency exists and you’ll have about 2 meters of extra legroom. – I was sitting in 43k :-)
The flight was long (over 12 hours) but you can use the in-flight entertainment to watch any movie (out of about 100 movies) or TV show (over 150 episodes) since the system is on-demand and you have your own screen (okay – that’s standard on long routes by now).
I watched “x-files” and “A journey to the center of the earth” and slept for about 6 hours. After I woke up there were only 2.5 hours left, they started serving breakfast and shortly after that we started the descent to Auckland.
Security checks in Auckland for international arrivals are really extensive. First you need to pass the immigration, then you get into the customs line and after that your bags are being screened again.
Saturday was my travel day – I arrived Monday morning. :-)
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