An announcement today that Singapore Airlines has canned its route to Canberra is a stark admission that there is not enough demand for international flights out of Wellington, say those concerned about the ongoing spending of ratepayer and taxpayer money on the venture. Guardians of the Bays, representing more than 600 community and ratepayer organisationsContinueContinue reading “Media Release GotB: Changes to Singapore Airlines’ Capital Express still don’t stack up for ratepayers”
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MEDIA RELEASE GotB: Airport Extension proposal delayed yet again – raising doubts about viability
For immediate release 6 March 2017 Residents’ and ratepayers’ group the Guardians of the Bays have today welcomed news that Wellington International Airport has requested an interim adjournment of proceedings from the Environment Court. The request from the Airport comes in response to the Court of Appeal ruling that the Civil Aviation Authority must reconsiderContinueContinue reading “MEDIA RELEASE GotB: Airport Extension proposal delayed yet again – raising doubts about viability”
RE-BLOG CROAKING CASSANDRA: Wellington airport and the runway extension
By Michael Reddell, October 17, 2016. Link here. Fairfax’s Hamish Rutherford had a substantial piece in Saturday’s Dominion-Post on the proposed Wellington airport runway extension, under the heading If we build it, will they come? (a rather similar title to my own first post on the airport last year). It seemed like a fairly balancedContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG CROAKING CASSANDRA: Wellington airport and the runway extension”
RE-BLOG WELLINGTON SCOOP: Runway extension report: concerns on noise, environment, surfing, fishing
Link here. The Regional Council last week released a 165-page staff report analysing Wellington Airport’s application for permission to extend its runway. The report, on the airport’s resource consent application, confirms that of the 776 submissions received, 527 were against the runway extension, 227 were in support of it (either in full or in part),ContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG WELLINGTON SCOOP: Runway extension report: concerns on noise, environment, surfing, fishing”
RE-BLOG CROAKING CASSANDRA: Subsidy City… Wellington Airport
By Michael Reddell Link At about 3pm, the first Singapore Airlines flight to Wellington, via Canberra of all places, lands at Wellington Airport. Wellington-boosters, well represented on the Council and the Chamber of Commerce, talk up the first “long-haul” flight to and from Wellington. All of which would be more impressive if it were notContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG CROAKING CASSANDRA: Subsidy City… Wellington Airport”
Longer runway not priority for city businesses – council survey
Original article Wellington’s parking and transport are bigger challenges to Wellington businesses than lack of international capacity via Wellington International Airport, according to the Wellington City Council’s 2016 Survey of Wellington Businesses. Richard Randerson, co-chair of broad-based residents’ group Guardians of the Bays, says the survey is further evidence that Wellington Airport’s proposed runway extensionContinueContinue reading “Longer runway not priority for city businesses – council survey”
Wellington runway extension plan ‘implausible at best’
Original article on scoop.co.nz By Pattrick Smellie Aug. 15 (BusinessDesk) – Wellington’s airport runway extension initiative fails on the grounds that lower North Island and South Island travellers are already flying to long-haul destinations through Auckland or Christchurch and the region is not a magnet for tourists, who are more likely to favour Auckland andContinueContinue reading “Wellington runway extension plan ‘implausible at best’”
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