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17 October 2002
Our flight had left Auckland on time and took nearly 12h to get to Hong Kong. Upon disembarkation around 1800, we went to the transfer desk to collect boarding passes for tomorrow morning’s flight to Bangkok and Chengdu. Initially, we were told they could only give us the first one to Bangkok but not the […]
17 October 2002
Our excitement about going to Tibet was somewhat masked by a very routine wake-up. Our 1105 departure to Hong Kong meant that we got up and readied ourselves at a similar time to a normal work day. Auckland airport was dead quiet and check-in was immediate. We had bought our Air New Zealand tickets to […]