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Post by Brent George on Jul 30, 2020 19:45:02 GMT
Well, maybe not "International" - but certainly "controversial". Stuff - Business: 22-Jul-2020Stuff - Business: 30-July-2020
22-Jul-2020: Christchurch Airport is eyeing up the Queenstown tourist market, announcing plans to build a terminal with international flight capacity just an hour up the road. The airport company said on Wednesday discussions were under way for a “world-class sustainable airport” on 750 hectares of land near Tarras in Central Otago. 30-Jul-2020: A landowner who unwittingly sold his Central Otago property to developers of a proposed airport has apologised to the community.
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Post by Brent George on Aug 16, 2020 22:34:49 GMT
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Post by Brent George on Jan 5, 2021 18:53:46 GMT
And an interesting summary of the "secret plot" to secure land in Tarras for the airport. Stuff - National: 26-Dec-2020For two years, a small team at Christchurch Airport plotted an audacious strike – to create an international airport in their rival’s backyard. In July, they shocked everyone by announcing they’d bought four properties near Tarras in Central Otago, and wanted long-haul jets flying there within 10 years.It is noted that CIAL (Chch International Airport Ltd) is 75% owned by the Chch City Council. How can they afford to consider this venture when being so extended financially 'post-quake'. Oh that right - the rate-payers will cover it....
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Post by Brent George on Jan 5, 2021 18:56:39 GMT
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Post by Brent George on Apr 29, 2021 19:51:45 GMT
An update: A new airport being proposed for Central Otago farmland by a Christchurch City Council-owned company may soon face formal pushback – from its own Councillors. Stuff - Business: 30-April-2021Ratepayer pressure? Political pressure? Conscience pressure?
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Post by Brent George on Sept 24, 2021 4:12:03 GMT
Large Wide-body Jets Could Land at Proposed Central Otago Airport, Report Finds.Stuff - Business: 24-Sep-2021A new report has given the developers of a proposed Central Otago airport confidence that large wide-body jets will be able to land at the planned site. Christchurch Airport Lt released the aeronautical assessment, prepared by aviation consultancy Airbiz, of the site near Tarras on Friday. Two potential 2.2-kilometre runway alignments were proposed. Either would enable the airport to serve domestic routes and short-haul international destinations like Australia and parts of the Pacific, project director Michael Singleton said. Wide-body jets would also be able to use the selected runway, despite the assessment showing they typically needed a runway of between 2.3km and 3km long.
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Post by Brent George on Aug 22, 2022 3:03:09 GMT
Tarras project: Fog partially lifts on ambitious Christchurch airport planStuff - National: 22-August-2022As Christchurch Airport looks to spread its wings with a new international terminal in the wide open spaces of Tarras, Central Otago, the project’s leader sits down with Newsroom in a crowded Cromwell cafe to explain its ambitions. In the words of Michael Singleton, who heads Christchurch Airport’s Tarras project, all that’s planned are some modest buildings and a runway: “We are not building Heathrow.” To get a handle on the project’s scale, says Singleton, the intended wide-body-capable 2.2km runway and terminal development will be comparable to the existing Nelson, Invercargill and Dunedin airports.
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Post by Brent George on Sept 21, 2022 19:34:02 GMT
Tarras Airport needs 'mass tourism' to survive, Queenstown Airport Chief Executive saysStuff - Business: 22-Sept-2022A new Central Otago airport based in Tarras would be reliant on mass inbound tourism to be viable, Queenstown Airport chief executive Glen Sowry says. “Do the communities of Queenstown Lakes District and Central Otago want that level of mass inbound tourism that is required to justify that airport?” he asked. “Every conversation I’ve been part of and privy to, the answer to that is ‘no’.” Sowry was talking as Queenstown Airport Corporation prepared to publicly launch its first 10-year plan. [Spoiler: Sowry may have not be impartial...]
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Post by Brent George on Jan 26, 2023 0:31:42 GMT
Say no to planned Otago airport, academics urgeStuff - Environment: 26-Jan-2023Christchurch Airport’s plan for a new runway at Tarras has a new set of opponents: eleven professors concerned it would “fatally undermine” climate goals.
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Post by Brent George on Aug 29, 2023 5:01:24 GMT
Proposed Central Otago airport could host 3.6 million passengers and operate 24 hours a dayStuff - Otago: 29-Aug-2023The backers of an international airport proposal in remote Central Otago say the airport could serve 3.6 million passengers a year during a 24-hour operation. Christchurch Airport plans to build the airport on a 800ha site at the town of Tarras, about 30km north of Cromwell. On Tuesday, the company revealed its preferred runway alignment and more details of its business case. It included projections that demand for air connectivity to and from Central Otago, including Queenstown and Wānaka, was likely to grow to about 6.8 million passengers by 2050.
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