Originally Posted by jeppetto367 I've spent a bit of time in LA over the years and had a similar stopover late last year with a work client that had never been to LA.We took an Uber down to Santa Monica, walked around the pier, walked the boardwalk up to Venice Beach, had a few beers in t...

Hi to all those in the know, flying to above this Friday from AKL , we have a ten-hour layover, can people advise how easy it is to do a day trip secondly apart from Priority Pass are there any lounges avail on a pay to enter on a walkup basis ( space available). appreciate any guidance as its fi...

Originally Posted by krisdude : Interesting comments.For rich5011 - What is NZ 'Forum'?  Didn't realise that NZ had one. I would be interested in what you said for you to be lock you out of Airpoints.NZ is like any airline that has its ups and down. I agree, that their product i...

I was invited to there "forum" for input into weekly activities and questions and interaction, i wasnt terribly active for a while but in the last 9 months i have raised many sensitive? subjects and a number of other member in the community did as well. I received a early morning email advising m...

Ohhh Anthony ......are you that shallow, please keep on topic. NZ as far as last looked was not "rest of world", are we not neighbours. In fact i guess give the economic solidarity "currently" of NZ perhaps a re title of this fine site could be considered 

be very intersted to understand why your trans tasman neighbours who religoulsy follow your product are not eligble.......or dont our opinions count or even let us do the survey but we can ignore the possibility to go in the draw. :) 

Mark thanks for agreat summary , it was a great three para sum up and no sarcasm ....thanks.   I thoroughly agree with your summation.

hey Richardyes i recall being bumped to first on ansett int to osaka 747-300, first time i ever flew first class and the steak was fantastic, lovely comfy sets and to the other posts the golden wing was great and thanks to ansett they forced nz to do something.good memories 

agreed totally

in my opinion the unions and a nefarious anti NZ attitude scuttled it ........NOT Air New Zealand , recall the 767 issues they were not of NZ making , yes there was mismanagement prior to NZ making the takeover and perhaps the takeover injudicious given the disgraceful sitaution pre existing &nbs...

Cant see FRA , they have been there and with SQ and LH alliances quite strong today if you look at fares to europe  , why would they , i think JNB is a real option but would that require a stop? alos they done IAH so will let that settle in along with EZE that seems logical again to have it ...

SKYLUX, is the offering from these people real?? i was looking for some seats to europe and the c class seats are very low akl to fra i was looking at . can one trust this off shore booking???

thank you for the heads up so we are treavellling c class to SCL and PE to GIG and then economy to to POA so presumably we can eneter the loung on scl and gig from what is said here , i am very grateful for that feedback as i have never been to south amewrica before and dislike traisping round tr...

thankj u for that , TAM website still had the following oin it , hence the question as i know they left the SA The following customers can be admitted to the VIP lounges: First class passengers flying on TAM or with companies in the Star Alliance, along with a guest; TAM, LAN and Star Alli...

Lan tam.I am travelling to brazil in two weeks and transiting via SCL ( biz class) through Rio to POA. the lounge info is dodgy on the lan -tam site says tam will admit star alliance gold member in there lounge???? is this right and if we a re fly premium econ ( which is all they have SCL- to GIG...