The hard product on the dreamliners is good. All the older planes hard product is very poor. I've done the old B777 HKG-TLV last year and it was awful. This year it switched to the B787-9 and it was like a different airline.

I've flown 12 hour flights in economy on a Dreamliner. I survived. Composite worries? Then don't fly any new aircraft including the A350. You might have to swim everywhere within a few years.

Air NZ have the option to convert some of these to 787-9's. They would be the one's to do NYC, not the 787-10.

The Hilton on Little Queen St (and and Bourke Street) will well under construction. The lift core is up to level 10. It will open next year.

Ritz Carlton has nothing to do with Deague. It's being built by Far East Consortium as part of a massive 4 tower development.