Auckland International Airport Largess

[27/09]

If this isn't proof that the companies that run the large airports, in New Zealand at least, are ripping the travelling public off then I don't know what is.

Auckland starts shaping aerotropolis - Business - NZ Herald News

I thought this statement was a gem,

"This is to create a point of arrival because at the moment you don't really know when you've got to the airport," Alexander said.

Really!!!! If you can't tell now you probably shouldn't be allowed out by yourself.

Another piece of technobabel

Ludo Campbell-Reid, Auckland Council environment strategy and policy manager, said the entranceway work would result in an "extraordinary landscape, cultural and environmental statement".

Changing the entry area was a local example of bigger plans by the airport management team who realised the airport needed to be a destination in its own right, Campbell-Reid said.

Pity Auckland International Airport nixed the plan for a rail link to the airport, all in the interests of protecting their parking revenue.

[framer]

Free wifi like other International Airports further north would be a good place to start.

[slackie]

You should see the new traffic plan in front of the domestic terminal... what a nightmare?! Gotta wonder who designed that?! You certainly know you've arrived at the airport now!!