In the middle of a multi-year global airline collapse…
and our worst-ever tourism collapse …
and one of our worst economic collapses…
Within 45 minutes of an international airport…
and within 25 minutes of another major regional airport…
On 700 acres of flat productive farmland and vineyards…
In an area marketed for decades as pure and uninterrupted in its high country vistas…
In a country that’s finally trying to limit its greenhouse emissions…
… the first thing that comes to mind is: let’s build another large international airport.
Right here.
At some point the airlines of New Zealand will have another run through the Commerce Commission of requiring airports to prove the justification of their landing charges through an efficient use of their assets. A new underused and overcapitalised piece of tarmac will have the QC’s rubbing their hands with glee.
So before they get to that point, could Christchurch Council have a word as the Christchurch Airport shareholder with its board, before Otago loses its shit?
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