New Zealand: New terminal for 5m travellers at Queenstown Airport

Queenstown Airport will need a new terminal to accommodate passenger movements which may be capped at 5m a year by 2045, airport bosses say. Wanaka Airport might also be developed as a "dual airport" to take some pressure off Queenstown. A master plan for the airport for the next 30 years was released by Queenstown Airport Corporation CE Colin Keel and property and planning general manager Rachel Tregidga yesterday. Keel asked the community to imagine what the resort would look like in 30 years. Forecasting showed passenger movements, arrivals and departures, would reach 7m a year. That equated to about 3.5m residents or visitors moving through the airport. The company had decided that number was "not a sustainable growth figure for Queenstown Airport". "It's potential growth. It doesn't have to happen if we don't want it to." Keel said, instead, the airport was planning for five million passenger movements.<br/>