Unless you live in Australia (hello neighbour), the truth is that you're probably going to spend quite a long time flying to New Zealand. There's no escaping the fact that down here at the bottom of the Southern Hemisphere, we're a world away from anywhere. This is not helped by the fact that, depending on your home country, you may not have the option of direct flights. To give you some idea, flying from New York takes approximately 16 hours while from LA it takes around 12 hours. If you live in the UK or anywhere in Europe, expect to be in the air for at least 24 hours, with one or more stopovers. But don't give up on us just yet. There are lots of different flight options and in our dedicated flight times to New Zealand guide, we share details of the airlines that do fly direct along with average flight time from most popular visitor countries to Auckland, our largest international airport and where most travellers arrive.