Wellington airport expansion

From CollapseNet member Martin Cahill

NZ: Airport Traffic Growth Plan in Face Of Peak Oil

737 400 jet    © m.cahill

22 May 2012 

Infratil owned Wellington International Airport  is planning to increase the number of flights per day. In a time when some airlines are going to the wall tenants on neighbouring airport owned land have been given notice. The airport owners are also offering to buy houses to create a buffer zone for noise management. 

Different aircraft have different sound signatures. I know because a live close enough to hear them. The worst offender is the 737- 400. These birds must be the noisiest thing short of a military jet. 

Why not just get Air New Zealand to replace these jets or better still turn the airport into common gardens for when we need to source food locally?

 HYPERLINK "http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/eastern-suburbs/6947767/Airport-plans-may-create-wasteland" http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/eastern-suburbs/6947767/Airport-plans-may-create-wasteland

 HYPERLINK "http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/eastern-suburbs/6935976/Airport-to-remove-homes-in-noise-zone" http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/eastern-suburbs/6935976/Airport-to-remove-homes-in-noise-zone

Martin Cahill