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On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:49:13 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Hawaii is terrific. The flight is interminable.

That is what keeps us from going to New Zealand.
I would go if they could "beam" me there but 18 hours on a plane is
too much for me, even in 1st class..

We are going but stopping in Tahiti first. The airline pricing is getting
idiotic. In the 1980's I traveled business class a lot on overseas trips
to Asia and Australia. Was about a 50% boost over Coach. Last year the
trip to South Africa was $1700 for coach, SAA does have more room in coach,
and business was an extra $5700. Our trip we are planning to Tahiti, NZ,
and Cairnes was an extra $10000 for business over coach. And we are only
paying about $4000 for the flights now. At least the foreign carriers have
greater seat pitch.