The Queenstown Airport Corporation has told Frankton Golf Course executives the airport will not require any of its land for airport purposes in the "medium term" - defined as about 10 years.
Airport chief executive Steve Sanderson said a short taxiway planned for the northwest end of the runway would have required using some airport land used by the golf course.
However, the taxiway was now being built on the south side.
Construction had already begun on the taxiway, which runs from the airport's apron, parallel to the existing taxiway, and ends at the runway end safety area.
Mr Sanderson said Queenstown Airport owned about 10ha of land used by the Frankton Golf Course for its nine-hole course, while the council owned the remaining 15ha and 20ha.
Last year, the golf club started a petition - which attracted about 3000 signatures - to keep the course, the oldest in the Wakatipu Basin.
The council had told the club it would not be renewing the Frankton lease "in its current form" after it expired in 2012 because the land had been earmarked for the expansion of the Queenstown Events Centre.
Mr Sanderson said the golf club would now have to discuss the future of its lease with the council and, subject to those discussions, the airport would be open to discussing "some sort of lease of our land".
Frankton Golf Club chief executive Michael Shattock said the airport decision was "great news".
