This seems to have slipped under the radar
Air NZ unveils new Rotorua-Sydney flights - Travel - NZ Herald News
I wonder how this will go. Personally I don't see the numbers stacking up. Rotovegas is a smelly over rated dump.
However it is quite central, Taupo isn't all that far away along with the skifields at Ruapehu a bit further south. Vegas is far enough away from Auckland for Auckland not to pillage too many pax that might fly out of NZRO unlike Hamilton and Rotorua is certainly much more of a destination than NZHN.
Smart move by Air NZ or is it a dumb move? I wonder how it will affect the PacBlue operation out of NZHN?