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New Zealand’s Strong Fuel Surcharge Regulations
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This trick doesn’t work with Qatar and AVIOS. BIG surcharges originating from SYD or AKL to DOH.
Hi Ricky
Very interesting your article on New Zealand’s Strong Fuel Surcharge Regulations. I’m looking for destinations for my RTW 2020 mini. I’m hesitating to be Japan to go to Japan and New Zealand. But after reading your article, I think I’ll go to New Zealand. Rick can you tell me more about your itinerary? More precisely your entry and exit New Zealand including your stops of 20 hrs thank you. This will be my first mini-RTW.
We’re doing Queenstown to Christchurch (21 hour layover) to Auckland to Singapore to Seoul to Toronto. No more layovers in there, just connections from one flight to the other. Then I added a throwaway leg to St. John’s for MPM purposes.
Great article, Ricky! I’m currently on week two of a six week NZ vacation. You’re going to love the South Island.
I’m looking forward to it – and I’d welcome any recommendations 🙂
Hawaiian airlines J between AKL-HNL is a nice way to travel there using AA miles
Is this part of aa Aeroplan RT itinerary, or just a one way trip? How many miles did you use for this?
It’s a one-way for the return journey, booked for 80,000 miles per person in business class. The outbound will likely be a combination of Aeroplan and Alaska miles, as I indicated in the article.
I was under the impression that Singapore Airlines restricted their premium business cabins (A350/A380/777) to Krisflyer. Most of my Aeroplan searches only show A330 (and maybe some 787-10) seats. Has that changed recently?
As Jay said, you can find SQ J pretty reliable on the Asia/Pacific routes, the JNB route, sometimes even LAX.
It’s a very common false impression. SQ’s premium cabins (various F included) have been available via AP for a number of years, just a few select routes ;).
I’m assuming you can’t do a throwaway leg if you have baggage, so carry on only?
Legalities of throwaway legs? I thought it’s against carrier policies and they can take away your frequent flyer miles.
You can check bags if you throwaway leg takes place the next day after an overnight layover.
Perfectly legal, though yes, against the airline’s contract of carriage. The risk of your frequent flyer account being banned is (I’d argue) insignificant as long as you’re not doing this on a regular basis.
One thing I did when planning for my return form NZ in Feb 2018 was to book first the AC flights from Australia to Montreal. I selected Brisbane instead of Sydney as it’s usually slightly more available (I suspect people don’t think about it) AND it was on the 787. I noticed that there was a trend to NZ opening up seats about 9 months or so before the flight. So as soon as they appeared I called AP to add that segment and paid only the change fee. However the taxes ended up being SO LOW that it compensated for all the rest.