Flights and Rental Cars

We checked-in early for our flight from Heathrow and were told we could have exit-aisle seats for both flights, together. Sure enough, on the first flight to LA, we had plenty of room to stretch out legs and it was a very easy flight. However, we were a bit disappointed on the second flight to find we were "just" in a normal row. The flight went by pretty quickly, though and so we arrived in Auckland and picked up our rental car:

Our Rental Car