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Monthy Python & the Wellington Runway Extension: Someone should trophy hunt...
The bumbling shambles that is the Wellington International Airport and Wellington City Council’s pipe dream for an airport expansion rolls on with more misinformation and lack of co-ordination by the...
View ArticleA 1988 clip on safety issues at Wellington airport
A rather quaint old clip talking about the serious safety concerns at Wellington airport. Note, a very young Helene Ritchie saying that ‘the extension option is the least likely’.
View ArticleVIDEO: A collection of scary Wellington landings and take-offs
Watching these clips (and looking at the planes coming in during a screaming Southerly or Nor’westerly from my veranda) does really make you question the sanity of the planners who thought this was an...
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Stan Andis: Wellington Airport Comes to Town
It was only a matter of hours prior to my being informed that a presentation by Wellington Airport was to take place before a Council meeting on Tuesday 4th August, 2015. The topic was a (long...
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Keeping the Airport honest is as hard as catching tadpoles with your bare hands
We need to state upfront that we do appreciate that the Wellington International Airport Limited (WIAL) is a corporation, one run by its majority shareholder Infratil, and as such has specific mandates...
View ArticleAll the reports from the airport so far
We dug up the second arrangement between the Council and the airport, where the Council agreed to fund the airport with an extra $1.95m towards fast-tracking the runway extension through a board of...
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What exactly is happening with the Council funding the airport runway extension?
Some interesting developments have recently happened in the runway extension saga and we are going to have to start asking some serious questions about the Council’s involvement with the airport. Not...
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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...
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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...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Runway extension undermined by economic and sea level rise...
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...
View ArticleRE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Swampy Marsh enters the Airport Extension debate and...
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...
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NEWS: Pilots take runway battle to High Court
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. A plane lands at Wellington Airport earlier in 2015. Photo:...
View ArticleNEWS: Pilots challenge safety zones for Wellington Airport’s proposed runway...
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. At the High Court in Wellington...
View ArticleNEWS: Wellington airport’s safety disputed in runway extension case
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. The airport company...
View ArticleOPINION David Lee: Wellington runway extension or runaway costs?
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 –...
View ArticleREBLOG: Strathmore Park: Infratil getting testy over Wellington airport...
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. In an post on...
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SOME REAL FACTS ABOUT THE AIRPORT EXTENSION
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. That was unfortunately not the case and we have to...
View ArticleREBLOG Croaking Cassandra: What if they build it and no one comes?
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...
View ArticleREBLOG Genius Net: No Public Funding For Runway White Elephant Please
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. Despite project studies only being released...
View ArticleOPINION Dave Armstrong: Dave Armstrong: Project Runway wild gamble without an...
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...
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