So maybe I've screwed up here and I have sent a nice 'help me please' message to the folks at Air NZ but given they generally take a few days to reply, thought I'd ask it here.
Planning a USA vacation for family next year - last big hurrah before the kids all disappear off. We'll be doing multi stops in several US location using internal flights.
Originally booked through to NYC via Houston on the Air NZ website and all was well until I tried to pay for it using Airmiles. No option to use them - been saving them for 3 years ! Eventually had to call the call centre and after lots of attempts it turned out their star alliance partner wouldn't take airpoints. Was told to use the airpoints for the houston flights only and then book my own internal US transfers to NYC which I did. I was also told returning from another airport location wasn't an issue either.
Now sorted the bulk of the internal travel and US cities and went to book us one way flights back from San Francisco - Roughly $7000 Kiwi - ouch...
Then used same dates and found I can fly out from and return to NZ for roughly $980 Kiwi each way. That puts the return leg at roughly $4900.
Any ideas why I'm paying an additional $2000 give or take as a result of splitting my arrival and departure ports?
I've not got much choice other than to shop around for other airlines which I'll try but would prefer to use the local carrier.
Cheers for your thoughts