Hamilton.......... and most other regional airports in New Zealand. It seems to be a pissing contest to see who can have the biggest terminal or the longest runway, without any thought as to where the passengers are going to come from to use them.
For
sake, we are a country of only 4 million people spread out over an area bigger than the British Isles. We are not exacly closely located to any large population bases who can/want/need to come to New Zealand, and even if they did would they want to fly direct to Hamilton, Tauranga, Invercargill etc?
Back to Hamilton,
New terminal (monument to the airport hierachy) which isn't functional, - want to see how farcical PAX security is for jet/international ops. Just watch as domestic PAX walk across the apron thru the line of international PAX as each group boards their respective aircraft. A parallel taxyway might have been a better investment.
As for the runway extension to 2700m, refer first two paragraphs of my post. This extension involves the closing of a road and there doesn't seem to to be much action on that front so I wouldn't expect to see the extension to happen anytime soon. The VOR would need to be relocated as well.
Full advantage has yet to be taken from the last runway extension as the touchdown zone hasn't been moved to the north and the IFR approach profile is still for the old threshold.
All in all an airport run by people who don't really know how to run an airport, but there is nothing wrong with their egos.