The runway at Dunedin's Momona International Airport might
be deemed too short for the aircraft of visiting pop bands
like Coldplay but it could have been worse. For 30 years,
Dunedin debated whether or not it should build an airport in
the city, on land reclaimed from Otago Harbour. In this
edited extract from his newly released book Flight Path
Dunedin, A History of Aviation in Otago, author Jim
Sullivan examines "the harbour airport that never was".