More Sydney flights by Air New Zealand

Air New Zealand is to launch direct air services between Rotorua and Sydney. The service which is scheduled to commence 12 December 2009 will be operated with 152-seat Airbus A320 aircraft. The airline will operate a twice weekly service from 19 December on Saturdays and Mondays until the end of January, after which they will operate on Saturdays and Tuesdays.

"Rotorua is an iconic tourism destination and well known amongst Australian travellers. We see the potential for good passenger numbers from Australia and the continued strength of inbound tourism from there has lent weight to our decision," said Air New Zealand General Manager Tasman Pacific Airline, Glen Sowry. "The new services will also make Rotorua significantly more accessible for visitors from Asia who often visit both Australia and New Zealand and whom we can now bring directly from Sydney to Rotorua instead of via Auckland."

Air New Zealand has launched a special  fare of $209 one-way online available for sale until 14 August 2009 with year round fares available from $239 one way.

People who read this also read...

  • Air New Zealand to Start Direct Flight From Sydney to Rarotonga in 2010 posted on 18 December 2009

    Air New Zealand is to begin direct flights between Sydney, Australia and Rarotonga in the Cook Islands next year. The Cook Islands Tourism Minister Robert Wigmore says Cabinet has approved a financial guarantee for Air New Zealand to operate flights during a trial period of July to October next year. A...
    Read More

  • Tiger announces Melbourne to Sydney flights posted on 02 April 2009

    Budget airline Tiger has announced it will begin flying between Melbourne and Sydney from July. The Singapore and Melbourne-based airline launched in Australia in 2007. But it has never flown the Melbourne to Sydney route, which it says is one of the most popular routes in the world. It says the new...
    Read More

  • New Zealand Visitor Arrivals for January 2009 posted on 02 March 2009

    World economic conditions are biting into the New Zealand tourism industry with a decrease in the number of long-haul tourists visiting in January this year. Statistics from Tourism New Zealand show that there were 3.7% less visitors in January 2009 than the same month last year – an overall decrease...
    Read More

  • 2011 A New Approach in New Zealand Tourism posted on 10 January 2011

    New Zealand’s national tourism campaign has stepped forward in 2011 with a new, passionate and advanced approach to promote New Zealand tourism. The energetic and more meaningful tag line to this new campaign is “100% pure You”. The New Zealand’s tourism campaign launched today...
    Read More

  • Virgin Blue will stop offering New Zealand flights posted on 16 August 2010

    VIRGIN BLUE will stop its flights to New Zealand and redeploy aircraft to short-haul international routes after chalking up losses in the tens of millions of dollars across the Tasman over the past three years. The airline announced the first phase of its network review yesterday, which includes redeploying...
    Read More

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes