After a couple of nights in Auckland, our Air New Zealand flight from Auckland to Queenstown was departing at 2:15PM. We got to the airport at around 12:30PM, which was plenty early. At Auckland Airport, the domestic and international terminals aren't connected. The domestic terminal was quite crowded, though still easy to navigate. We used…
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What are other ways to access the lounge if you don't have Star Alliance Gold?
I love Air NZ...
Hope you had permission to post the pictures you took of the other passengers. Some of them might have protected identity etc...etc...
If I had been in one of the pictures I would have been furious.
Great overall lounge in AKL Domestic. If you get the chance the AKL/SYD/BNE International lounges have been refurbished so have the same (or better) F&B as the AKL Domestic lounge but a really nice new decor. The coffee ordering system is great - saves so much time by ordering on the iPad and leaving the baristas to just make coffee rather than write down orders as well. If you have the Air New Zealand phone app and use the mobile BP to gain access to any NZ lounge with a barista, you can also place a coffee order from the app anytime after you enter the lounge as well as save your favourite coffee's for even quicker ordering via the app.
You should fly air new Zealand premium economy at some point for a review, their hard product in premium economy is better than Emirates business class on the 777 so hey why not try?
@Meta - Nope. lucky's posted before about why he doesn't blur out people's faces in the photos he posts.
Lucky, how long are you in Queenstown? We're in our way there now. Arrive on the 5th. Leaving lax in an hour
Perth Qantas Business Lounge wins for me, a cut above the Qantas Club lounges, but then I started business flying using NZ lounges and regarded them to be the "norm". Lounges in the US are glorified sitting places which largely reflect the curious Soviet style ownership/management practice of local authorities owning US airports, and airlines owning terminals, which seems to result in a very mixed result in terms of standards. Even in Europe, most lounges that are substandard compared to NZ and Qantas domestic lounges.
Quote:cinti lingus " Im curious to know, do you mr slappig obtain consent from the passengers in the photo’s which you take. I would seek legal opinion if my face appeared in your random photos!"
In New Zealand it is perfectly legal to take an photo of people within an public place, without needing permission.
@cinti lingus
Pictures taken in public areas do not require a consent from those people who appear in the pictures. For example, if you take photos at a baseball game, at a concert or a lounge, you dont need to obtain any consent. Also, the correct plural form of photo is photos not photo's.
@cinti lingus. People in public areas generally have no right to privacy in most countries so they have to accept that their faces will appear on photographs. If one tried to use a person's image specifically to sell something or took a photograph of a person say leaving a hospital where they were receiving treatment, then it might be open to debate whether that was an misuse of their image/invasion of privacy. Otherwise, if you appear as a randomer in a photograph, you just have to deal with it. On the other hand, if the lounge has a policy against photography, then a valid complaint to the lounge operator could be made.
Lucky, didn't you say that one of your domestic NZ flights was the roughest flight you've ever been on? I was looking forward to the trip report for that one!
@ Jordan -- It was indeed for the last 20 minutes, though there's not much else to report about the flight.
Did you check out the room at the far end of the lounge with the automatic sliding glass doors? They have a "wall" of real plants in there between the windows and the ceiling of the room retracts to open air on sunny days. Take a look next time.
Even in the relative outposts like Dunedin, the lounge absolutely shames the Korean first class lounge in JFK
The domestic and international terminals are connected, just grab your bags and follow the white line. Outside.
You should have seen NZ’s tin shed terminals in the 1960s/70s (sparrows in the former aircraft factory Wellington domestic terminal were legendary. As was the walk in horizontal rain to the aircraft steps. Things have improved.
As to security, what security? I have never seen a scanner in a NZ domestic terminal. Quick boarding pass scan, and straight onto the aircraft. In the provincial airports, airside, is the plane’s side of a wire fence.
@zontar I know this was a while ago but that is the international lounge, not domestic.