Do bags always clear customs in AKL?

January 7th, 2009 by webmaster

If someone is flying LAX-AKL-CHC on the direct flight NZ7501 do the 1) passengers and 2) bags need to clear customs/immigrations in AKL or do they do that in CHC?

OT but related to my other post...

If the passengers came a day earlier, any guess how quickly will unaccompanied bags [not freight] ticketed to CHC get processed?

What on earth is ABV being confused with? Sounds fishy to me.

I've found that the bags will turn up pretty quickly (in a couple of days) just as long as they don't get stuck in a loop between LAX and AKL which seems to happen now and again. They will usually pop it in a cab and deliver it direct to you once cleared through customs and agriculture.

Your friends are lucky - baggage handlers contracted by Air NZ are universally EXTREMELY poor at service around the world, particularly in the US and UK - so being handled by the airline itself is a plus. The phone number in Auckland connects with some pretty helpful old guys.

On a *nearly* related topic: One of the baggage staff at AKL told me a slightly fishy tale couple of months back that allegedly there is a chap working at Heathrow who is dyslexic and they expect a % of misloaded bags on every flight from LHR - mostly involving L.A bound bags being sent all the way to Auckland, or bags tagged for domestic NZ destinations heading to more 'exotic' destinations. He suggested that Abuja was one of the more frequent ones...

Do update us if there is a happy ending!

Yes they do clear customs at AKL. NZ is now doing the same trick of US-based airlines with single flight number but actually operated by different a/c for the second leg. In this case it is NZ501. So at AKL they will need to clear both immigration and customs, and make their way across to the domestic terminal. They have about 80 minutes to do so.

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