Our flight has a very civilized departure of 9pm. The upside is, after a long dark flight we arrive in Auckland in the morning, with our body clocks pretty close to the wall clock time.
The downside is, since we pretty much packed yesterday, we had all day Sunday with nothing to do but wait to go! After our usual Sunday-morning coffee at the P.A. Cafe we killed a couple of hours by walking around Filoli.
Finally came time to leave. We had opted to treat ourselves to a non-shared ride for this long trip.
The International terminal was very quiet and check-in was low-stress. For us. The guy who had to hoist our larger bag maybe felt a little stress (but it wasn't over the 50Kilo limit, so there).
Air New Zealand offered us a "twin-seat" deal: for $60 extra we could have a three-seat row to ourselves. Although it's perhaps an admission by them that the plane is far from full, it's a creative way to deal with it, as opposed to letting the vacancies fall randomly.
Scheduled boarding is 8:15 for a 9pm departure. When we touch down it will be Tuesday morning—we'll have lost a Monday!
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We're happy to hear that the first leg has been covered in a low stress way. But I am confused: I am reading this blog today, Sunday, Sept 13, before 12 midnight, and your talking about Tuesday, September 15. Oh well, I guess time travel is no longer just science fiction!
Vaya con Dios,
Bill & Jean.
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