Delay in airport work until master plan ready

Press, 5 July 1985, Page 5

Delay in airport work until master plan ready

Christchurch Airport’s new baggage claim area may have to be relocated, and so it will be built without a ceiling or air. ventilation. The airport’s director, Mr Hugh McCarroll, said yesterday that this was a way of cutting costs because the Airport Master Plan might recommend significant changes in the location of the domestic claim a£ea. 'For that reason the work

being done now was being kept to a minimum. The new baggage makeup conveyer installed could be shifted later at relatively little cost. The ceiling and air ventilation system would not be installed in case the area was relocated. They would be installed once the master plan was finished, if it retained the domestic baggage area in the same places The new conveyer area is

expected to be open to the public by the end of the month, with part of the area open in two weeks. This phase of the project would cost $300,000, Mr McCarroll said. The original total cost was $450,000. All airport terminal improvements not immediately needed for the handling of baggage would be delayed until after the master plan was released, Mr McCarroll said.