Originally Posted by
syzygy
Shellharbour mayor's dislike for all things Wollongong is well known. In this case, how dare their airport be called Wollongong Airport, so they changed it. It's got nothing to do with aviation and everything to do with ego.
Interestingly, it's generally only aviators who call it Wollongong Airport. Locals on the ground call it Illawarra Regional Airport, a region of which Shellharbour and Wollongong both belong. So if any name change were to happen, it probably should have been changed to Illawarra airport.
I'm guessing the mayor wants the CTAF calls to be changed to Shellharbour Traffic....
Unbelievable.
Locals (non aviation) normally call it Albion Park airport, if you call it Illawarra Regional Airport you get a lot of blank looks and have to explain you mean Albion Park, to which the reply usually is "Why didn't you just say that then?".