A clouding mechanism also blocks out all light in the windows, giving the illusion that you are still flying through the night sky long after the flight has crossed into the sunlight of a new day. As such, the cabins remain dark with all cosmetic lights off for roughly 13 hours of the flight. ![]() And the airline knows to create a scenario where passengers can sleep as long and comfortably as possible. The whole service took roughly an hour to get through which is actually nice on such a long flight.Īir New Zealand will only fly this route at night, which means that passengers will inevitably want to sleep more towards the beginning of the flight. Ample, all New Zealand-label wine flowed throughout. Cocktails preceded the bread cart from which I selected beetroot rolls and black olive loaf, served with Hawkes Bay olive oil as well as butter. An ideal flight outfit-a forgiving color for all the inevitable food spillage over the course of a long flight with three full meals, loosely fitted to keep you comfy as you wriggle in your seat-that I was pleased to change into. Before the dinner service started, I slipped into the restroom to change into a set of jet-black pajamas handed to me by the crew after take off. Dinner was a choice of grain salads, slow-cooked lamb and asparagus pasta, served after amuse bouches of cucumber and gravlax, seared tuna, and a pumpkin and lentil soup (I opted for the salad, having already eyed up the hot pastrami sandwiches served on demand any time during the flight as well as brownie ice cream dessert with my name on it). Courtesy Air New ZealandĪfter going through the goodies my attention immediately drifted to the menu. And a personal favorite-the airline’s own individually wrapped hard lollies handed out up and down the aisles before we begin to descend, as the flight’s way of letting you know that soon we’ll be on land (and to stow that tray table).īusiness-class dinner service is a highlight of Air New Zealand's ultra-long route. The attendants! Perky and kind in a way that felt true to the Kiwi spirit. The food! Always thoughtfully highlighting New Zealand’s own cuisine. And I developed a fondness for the airline that led me to declare to anyone who’d listen that my holiday begins once I step onto an Air New Zealand flight, not off it. Flying between these two points was an annual certainty much like Christmas or a birthday. This airline’s routes stitched together my expat life growing up in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital, to that of my extended family on the East Coast of the U.S. But more than my willingness to lean into, no-*embrace-*a hyper-long flight, was my eagerness of doing so on Air New Zealand. I’ll get into comfy clothes, I will identify entire box sets to finish, I will bring plenty of reading materials that will likely never make it out of the bag. ![]() “I’ll just commit,” is always my favorite answer. I wasn’t fussed, therefore, about how long I would be onboard Air New Zealand’s inaugural flight from New York to Auckland, debuting as the fourth longest flight in the world, despite most people’s shock when I told them it’s 17 hours and 35 minutes of flight time “What will you do?” they asked, incredulously. More specifically, I’ll take anything 10 hours or more over the dreaded five to nine-hour range. It’s not a popular opinion, but I hold firm that a longer flight is more comfortable than something shorter.
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