How do you think, back in the day, the Americans felt when turning up in Miami for their BA flight to London to find an Air NewZealand DC10?
We operated them with our crews from LAX when ANZ didn't have traffic rights. We ended up with down time and BA utilised them on several routes MIA, BOS and PHL.
Back then New Zealand was not well known amongst our American cousins and the DC10 was known as 'The Widowmaker' due to several fatal incidents.