Busy times at Queenstown's airport

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Mon, 17 Jan 2011
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The festive and following summer season is now busier with passengers than the winter season, Queenstown Airport says. A cluster of nine self-help check-in kiosks for domestic and international flights was installed in the Queenstown Airport terminal building over the Christmas period. Queenstown Airport customer services team member Pat Taylor, of Arrowtown, stands in front of the new help desk installed before Christmas. The four team members are already fielding more than 2000 inquiries a week. Queenstown Airport's critical runway end safety area (Resa) is scheduled to be completed by May, ahead of the deadline of October, 2011. Queenstown Airport bought this $136,000 Kubota M9540 tractor and accessories to mow lawns and clear snow and ice with rotating brooms. It replaces the limited 25-year-old Ford 6600 tractor, which will be sold. There were 28 corporate jet movements at Queenstown Airport last December, up from 23 the December before, and there have been 20 movements so far this month. Queenstown Airport is on target for one million passengers in the next 12 months, with a 69% increase in international passengers alone. One of the two $800,000 Queenstown Airport rescue fire tenders, bought about two years ago from Austria; each carry 6500 litres of water for firefighting.
 

A day in the increasingly busy life of Queenstown Airport.

Photos by James Beech; prints available from otagoimages.co.nz.

 

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