Newcastle Airport to double terminal capacity | Australian Aviation Magazine
& try & attract international services to NZL ?
regarding last paragraph ...
" Newcastle Airport’s first venture into international services was in 2003 when it developed temporary facilities to accommodate international services by Air New Zealand no-frills airline Freedom Air. The services were short-lived due to lower-than-expected demand and a change to Freedom Air’s fleet deployment plans."
The main reason Freedom didn't work NTL/AKL is because this was the1st time airlines paid agents no commission, so all NTL agents didn't mention Freedom to their clients & sent them via SYD.
Not long after charters using Royal Tongan 752 (Royal Brunei) were to be started NTL/AKL, but got very little support from locals & Tongan by this stage were also in a mess (think they may have been in amess since day 1, with load factors in the 30's)