If there's a seat for sale on an Air New Zealand ticketed and operated flight, and you have enough Airpoints Dollars™ in your account, you can book an award ticket. It's as simple as that!
With the trans-Tasman Alliance with Virgin Australia from 26 July 2011 you can also book any seat available for sale as an award ticket on an Air New Zealand flight operated by Virgin Australia. These flights have will be numbered:
- NZ100-NZ999 Air New Zealand operated Tasman flights
- NZ7900-NZ7998 Virgin Australia operated Tasman flights
- NZ7000-NZ7899 Virgin Australia operated Domestic Australia flights
For Air New Zealand flights operated by Virgin Australia award tickets can be booked online or via your nearest Air New Zealand Contact Centre.
A special allocation of discounted Business Award fares are available in limited quantities to Gold Elite, Gold, Silver and Koru Members in addition to regular fares and great specials in Economy and Premium Economy.
You can now book your reward tickets on any Air New Zealand operated flight online. If you're already registered for online bookings, start your reward booking here. Or, register with myairnz now.
A few things to note:
- You can book a one-way ticket to a domestic, Tasman or Pacific destination with Airpoints Dollars and use cash to pay for the return flight. To do this online you will have to make two separate bookings, one with Airpoints Dollars and the other with your credit card. Long-haul journeys are sold as return fares, and the entire journey must be paid for with either Airpoints Dollars or cash - not a mixture of both.
- Award tickets and companion tickets may incur government taxes, levies, insurance and other surcharges, which must be paid for in cash, not Airpoints Dollars.
- If an Air New Zealand fare is published in a currency other than New Zealand Dollars, the price of the reward will be converted at Air New Zealand's discretion into New Zealand Dollars. This will be equivalent to the number of Airpoints Dollars required from your Airpoints™ account.
