UK, Greece, Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, France, South Africa, Namibia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Colombia, and many more.
I disagree. While some places can ve problematic (eg needing visa even for turn-around), most are fine in my experience. Over the years I've done international turn-arounds hundreds of times in dozens of countries, with limited issues.
The new direct bus service goes directly to sky city - no other stops. It also requires pre-booking although I assume at quiet times you could just book immediately after your flight lands and still get the next bus.
Also conside ex-nz. Cheaper fares, more SC, and seems no issue in showing ek flights to Europe. Depending on fare rules you may even be able to stopover in Aust (so can use to position for the next ex-nz ticket).
For NZ based P1s seems to have been bubbles or nothing. I got bubbles but know others who got nothing. I earned 11k SCs during 2022 (should have been more but cancelled trips due to getting covid). The others I know earnt much less.
And no Christmas vouchers either.
On a positive note the gent...
I've flown all airlines A380 except NH and HiFly. Most of these in F some in C. I've flown well over 200 A380 flights & 1 million flown miles (for me the third most flown a/c type by distance behind 747 and 777).
Syd f lounge has 3 work desks by the entrance to bathrooms and showers. There are also 3(?) suites. At times both are difficult to get - strictly first come first served. Used to be able to book the suites in advance but not since covid.
By returning to AKL just two flights disrupted. If they had diverted somewhere else it would have impacted multiple more flights over several days due to a/c and crew out of place.
I expect pax would have been reaccommodated on subsequent direct flights as well as indirect via LAX, SFO, YVR...
T5 has conformance at security - this is the time you must join the security queue by or you will be directed to transfers desk to rebook. I'm not sure exactly how long before departure this is, but given QF's atrocious OTP for QF1 personally I would be booking the later flight.