For the past several years,Air New Zealand has been extremely stingy when it comes to releasing premium cabin award availability to the US. To a large extent I understand why, since they've basically had a monopoly on the US market.
Now both American and United are launching flights to Auckland, or so it should hopefully drive down prices and increase award availability (in general) between the US and New Zealand. We've already seen some upgrade and award availability on American to Auckland,for example.
Back in the day Air New Zealand was quite predictable with award availability. They'd be great approximately making commerce class award seats available within 60 days of departure, to the point that you could nearly blueprint around it.
At this point, and however,I don't remember the final time I saw an Air New Zealand commerce class seat to/from the US mainland. It has literally been years since I've seen a single seat. This includes their flights from Auckland to Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as their new flight from Auckland to Houston.
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Source: boardingarea.com