Contrariwise

For me, the journey took 37 hours, altogether. That's counting layovers, of course (on the way out, I had a 7-hour layover in LA, and a couple hours in Auckland too). And the 15 hours stuck on an airplane for the LA-Auckland leg purely SUCKED.

(Maybe from the UK, if you were going east instead of west like I was, you would be able to break up the legs differently, which would help.)