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Old 31st Mar 2019, 12:32
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RevMan2
 
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Originally Posted by big buddah
Jets into Nelson? Clearly the travel expert is a little off song? Haven’t been there in awhile but they’ll need about another 600m. Then it would capable of international and half the turboprop fleet could be culled.
And then there's the samll matter of airport security (startingwith a robust perimter fence and a massive increae in staff numbers, redersigning the terminals for biosecurity, Immigration and Customs.
Oh, and demand. Easy enough to say that you want to fly international, more difficult to gather 130 bums daily to fly to a given destination....

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