Why the big deal about being based in AKL? There are lots of decent places within a 2 hr drive, even more so now with the northern motorway.
Personally, if I was employed by the Koru, I'd probably live down in the house in Whanga, drive up early doors, and be bright and bushy for LAX-HKG sector
Of course there are those in NZ who dont even know that life exisits north of the Manawatu gorge.
