Air New Zealand introduced Houston, Texas to its route network from 15 December operating Boeing 777-200ER's five times per week from Auckland operating as NZ28 northbound and NZ29 southbound.
NZ28 is scheduled to take 13hr 45min while NZ29 is scheduled at 14hr 30min.
The first flight was operated by ZK-OKF and per flight tracking website www.flightaware.com NZ28 took 12hr 41min flight time while NZ29 was planned to take 14hr 25min.
Flights will depart Auckland daily except Monday and Saturday through until early March when flight days change to daily except Monday and Tuesday. Further schedule changes take place during the month but remain at five times weekly.