FACILITIES AT AIRPORTS
Runways Needed For Jets
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. March 3. Unless steps are taken to provide facilities for handling the new jet aircraft which will be operating over Pacific air routes from October next, New Zealand may be by-passed by these aircraft and a speedy air link with other countries will be lost. This view was expressed today by the manager of the Wellington Municipal Airport (Mr J. W. Redstone) who has just returned from a six months tour of the United States, where he studied revenue-earning schemes adopted to make airports economic undertakings. Mr Redstone said a considerable amount of what he had seen and learned while in America could be applied to airports in New Zealand with advantage. “Almost without exception liquor licences for airport restaurants are the order of the day in America,” he said. Travellers could have meals in a restaurant or in a coffee bar.
“Although it was still necessary for the United States Government to provide regular financial aid in the form of grants to build new runways and terminal buildings, airports had been operated on a municipal basis since the war.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28835, 4 March 1959, Page 14
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