Airport / November 2015
Airport
December 2015 | October 2015-
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OPINION Dave Armstrong: Dave Armstrong: Project Runway wild gamble without an airline
- Guardians of the Bays
- Hallelujah! After growing opposition from surfers, Moa Point greenies and airline pilots, the airport runway extension is taking off thanks to the latest report commissioned by, wait for it, the airport.
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REBLOG Genius Net: No Public Funding For Runway White Elephant Please
- Guardians of the Bays
- The debate over whether or not public money should be invested in the extension of Wellington International Airport’s (WIAL) runway is starting to heat up.
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NEWS: Longer Runway not Plane Sailing
- Guardians of the Bays
- By Bernard Hickey As a Wellingtonian, I would love a runway that permits direct flights to Asia and the US.
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NEWS: Extending the runway: one truck every minute, for ten hours every day
- Guardians of the Bays
- by Lindsay Shelton The brutal reality of constructing a longer runway at Wellington Airport is revealed in one of the 27 reports that were published this week.
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REBLOG: What if they build it and no one comes?
- Guardians of the Bays
- A throwaway line of mine a couple of weeks ago about the Wellington City Council’s enthusiasm for the proposed airport runway extension prompted a couple of comments here from Tim Brown, chair of Wellington International Airport Limited (WIAL) – owned 66 per cent by Infratil and 34 per cent by the Wellington City Council.
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Runway Extension: Economic Minister not convinced
- Peninsula News
- A tweet from Steven Joyce yesterday on the proposed runway extension stated: “It remains mystifying why a private company whose parent made $385m last yr think it needs taxpayers 2 pay for this” He told The Dominion Post earlier that,... Read More ›
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Some real facts about the airport extension
- Guardians of the Bays
- Last night, 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 yesterday.
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REBLOG: Strathmore Park: Infratil getting testy over Wellington airport extension questions
- Guardians of the Bays
- Infratil are getting increasingly testy over the questions now being asked by many around the viability of the Wellington Airport Extension and the perception of a corporate handout.
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OPINION David Lee: Wellington runway extension or runaway costs?
- Guardians of the Bays
- OPINION: As Wellington International Airport Limited (WIAL) prepares to lodge its application for resource consent for a runway extension, it’s important Wellingtonians are aware of the full facts – because, if the scheme goes ahead, a vast amount of ratepayers’ money will be pouring into it.
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NEWS: Wellington airport’s safety disputed in runway extension case
- Guardians of the Bays
- Safety at Wellington airport is in dispute with the director of Civil Aviation saying it is safe and the pilots’ union saying the risk of an overrun or undershoot is significant.
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NEWS: Pilots challenge safety zones for Wellington Airport’s proposed runway extension
- Guardians of the Bays
- The cost of Wellington Airport’s $300 million runway extension will double if the larger safety zones that pilots want are included in the design, a judge has been told.
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NEWS: Pilots take runway battle to High Court
- Guardians of the Bays
- A plane is 29 times more likely to overshoot the runway at Wellington Airport than at Auckland, the High Court in Wellington has been told.
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RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Swampy Marsh enters the Airport Extension debate and suffers an ironic injury
- Guardians of the Bays
- Simon Marsh launched into David Lee this morning in an Op Ed in the Dominion Post about the airport extension.
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