Hello all,
I'm planning ahead to a trip to Auckland (and NZ in general) over Christmas later this year. I'm keen to fly Westwards as much as possible to have 2 out of 4 sectors be daytime flights rather than fly East and have 4 overnights.
Searching on the VS site only seems to be giving me one outbound option which is to change at PVG. I'd prefer to fly to the US and connect there, so I'll either have to call up or book through Expedia or something. The return would be via PVG, again for the daytime return.
Will likely be flying PE on a Flexi ticket.
Anyway, the current options for US connections appear to be either changing at SFO with a 2 hour layover, or at LAX, with either 2h15 or 3h15 layovers. I've never done an international connection before, but am quite familiar with connecting at US airports. I have Global Entry, and therefore TSA PreCheck as well so immigration/security shouldn't be too much of a bottleneck.
My preference would be to connect at SFO as VS and NZ both use the International Terminal (as opposed to LAX where I'd have to go from T2 to TBIT), but despite having GE, etc, part of me is saying that 2 hours isn't enough, especially if NZ will want my bags dropped an hour beforehand.
Just wondering if anyone else has thoughts?
I'm planning ahead to a trip to Auckland (and NZ in general) over Christmas later this year. I'm keen to fly Westwards as much as possible to have 2 out of 4 sectors be daytime flights rather than fly East and have 4 overnights.
Searching on the VS site only seems to be giving me one outbound option which is to change at PVG. I'd prefer to fly to the US and connect there, so I'll either have to call up or book through Expedia or something. The return would be via PVG, again for the daytime return.
Will likely be flying PE on a Flexi ticket.
Anyway, the current options for US connections appear to be either changing at SFO with a 2 hour layover, or at LAX, with either 2h15 or 3h15 layovers. I've never done an international connection before, but am quite familiar with connecting at US airports. I have Global Entry, and therefore TSA PreCheck as well so immigration/security shouldn't be too much of a bottleneck.
My preference would be to connect at SFO as VS and NZ both use the International Terminal (as opposed to LAX where I'd have to go from T2 to TBIT), but despite having GE, etc, part of me is saying that 2 hours isn't enough, especially if NZ will want my bags dropped an hour beforehand.
Just wondering if anyone else has thoughts?