Yesterday, the Capital’s worst-kept secret has been confirmed: Singapore Airlines is starting a 4-day a week service from Wellington to Singapore via Canberra. But there are some pretty serious questions yet to be answered about how this miracle came about. The new ‘capital express’ service will begin in September, with seats going on sale onContinueContinue reading “Singapore here we come! As long as it is subsidised…”
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REBLOG Keith Johnson: The business case for (or should that be against?) the Wellington runway extension
DOWN TO EARTH WITH A BUMP Everyone is slowly getting back to normality after the Christmas Holidays here in the Antipodes. The holidays are taken very seriously [or should I say ‘unseriously’], resulting both in substantial brain-fade during their duration and the build up of a toxic aversion to a return work among most citizens.ContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Keith Johnson: The business case for (or should that be against?) the Wellington runway extension”
REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the Wellington Airport Part 2
In my first post today, I posed some questions around the plausibility of the assumed increase in international travel into and out of New Zealand if the proposed Wellington airport runway extension was to proceed. In this post, I want to focus mainly on how the consultants have calculated the net national benefits from theContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the Wellington Airport Part 2”
A truly independent review of the Airport’s Cost Benefit Analysis
Ian Harrison, a highly respected Principal economist from Tailrisk Economics, has released a truly independent (i.e. not paid for or commissioned by any Party involved in the runway extension) review of the Cost-Benefit Analysis. It really is worth a read. To quote from his Executive Summary: Recently, the Wellington International Airport Company released a costContinueContinue reading “A truly independent review of the Airport’s Cost Benefit Analysis”
REBLOG Strathmore Park: Knowing better than the locals
by Lindsay Shelton The Wellington Airport campaign to promote a longer runway is similar to the Transport Agency’s campaign about building a flyover at the Basin Reserve. Both commissioned large numbers of experts to support what they wanted to do. Both failed to connect with the communities who would be most affected. The Transport AgencyContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Strathmore Park: Knowing better than the locals”
SOME REAL FACTS ABOUT THE AIRPORT EXTENSION
This week, we hoped that TV One News would give us the chance to provide some counter to the big bunch of spin all over the Dom Post recently. That was unfortunately not the case. The pilots, airline association and Steven Joyce have now all come out with serious doubts and concerns following the airport’sContinueContinue reading “SOME REAL FACTS ABOUT THE AIRPORT EXTENSION”
RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Swampy Marsh enters the Airport Extension debate and suffers an ironic injury
Simon Marsh launched into David Lee this morning in an Op Ed in the Dominion Post about the airport extension. He accused his colleague of shooting himself in the foot. In a scene that reminded me of Yosemite Sam hunting Porky Pig, Swampy waved his guns around and managed to shoot himself in the foot. AContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Swampy Marsh enters the Airport Extension debate and suffers an ironic injury”
MEDIA RELEASE: Runway extension undermined by economic and sea level rise factors
News that Wellington Airport (WIAL) will shortly release a business case on the proposed airport runway extension is to be welcomed as a step to greater transparency. But how much transparency will it actually deliver? The tired mantra of ‘300 metres for $300 million’ has been around for a long time now, while plans haveContinueContinue reading “MEDIA RELEASE: Runway extension undermined by economic and sea level rise factors”
OPINION Dr Sea Rotmann: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MOA POINTER
After a recent Dom Post article that asserted that the Wellington Airport is ‘gifting’ Moa Point residents $10,000 out of the goodness of their heart, some ugly attacks were made (including in the key letter featured in the Dom Post on October 8). I’d like to set the record straight about what it means toContinueContinue reading “OPINION Dr Sea Rotmann: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MOA POINTER”
Opinion Stan Andis: The Funding Circus
The year was 2013, a few days after written submissions followed by oral submissions had closed against the 2013/2014 Draft Annual Plan. The ink on the pages of the Draft Plan had not had time to dry while awaiting approval by the Council. The opening agenda item of the 29th May 2013 Wellington City CouncilContinueContinue reading “Opinion Stan Andis: The Funding Circus”
Guardians of the Bays 