Jericho

The "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls" bit is proof that it's a genuine quote

Heathrow Director - nothing special, except the future Monarch was on board and thus it is news.

Jordan

The weather factor @ Invercargill could never justify installing ILS.
We don't need Cat II/III, the weather never gets that bad.....
NZ has its 1st RNP & baro-VNAV approaches in use already. It has had GPS approaches for more than 11 years. How many in the UK again?
Air NZ will have the first RNP0.3 certificated Airbuses in the world.....(see latest Flight)
Queenstown is surrounded by mountains (procedure start altitude 10000ft) - something you won't see a lot of around UK airfields...
Airways NZ has just installed an ILS at Subic Bay - even the FAA said it couldn't be done....
...and I concur with gearup's comments, though all bets are off when the Bledisloe Cup comes up ......

if he had of been in a atr-72 instead of the 737 they could have gone into wanaka, just over the hill from arrowtown, or why not dunedin, its just as close to queenstown as invercargill is, given the things invercargill has been called over the years by visiting poms "a nuclear ground zero by a touring lions team, and the arsehole of the world by the rolling stones, maybe the prince could have added something

How lucky they are to have him visiting there country. What with that Tony Blair the Olympics and all, we in the UK are on the up. I trust there was a suitable car for the Prince.

Have to say by the end of Oct I will have spent over a month of 2005 in NZ and there is very little that you could claim was backward about the place.

Ireland is probably a much richer country than NZ and their roads put us to shame.