Up to Asia for work. Then my mom is flying to Sydney and we're flying across the ditch to Christchurch to meet my aunt and uncle to tour around the South Island of New Zealand for a week or so.

My mom has no idea that I've booked us in Emirates First Class on the A380 for the SYD-CHC flight, she's going to go crazy!

The SYD-CHC fifth freedom Emirates flight has always intrigued me. It costs so much to park at SYD (because it's so space-constrained) that Emirates calculated it would cost less to lose money doing an A380 round-trip to Christchurch than it would leaving the plane sitting there.