This article may lend undue weight to certain ideas, incidents, or controversies. Please help improve it by rewriting it in a balanced fashion that contextualizes different points of view.(March 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Airport in Tarras
Central Otago Airport
IATA: none
ICAO: none
Summary
Operator
Christchurch International Airport Limited
Serves
Central Otago
Location
Tarras
Elevation AMSL
797 ft / 243 m
Location of the proposed airport
Central Otago Airport (also known as Tarras Airport) is a proposed airport near Tarras in Central Otago, New Zealand. The controversial proposal was announced in July 2020 by Christchurch International Airport Limited, after a series of secretive land purchases were uncovered by a local investigative journalist.[1] The 75% Christchurch City Council and 25% central government owned company has purchased 750 hectares of land at the intersection of State Highway 8 and State Highway 8A.[2]
The proposal, which includes provision for wide bodied jets,[3] is being justified by Christchurch International Airport Limited in part because of alleged expansion limitations affecting both Wānaka and Queenstown Airports nearby.[4][5] Commentators have noted that Christchurch Airport has been experiencing reduced demand since the destructive earthquakes hit the city, and the airport company is seeking "greener pastures".[6]
^"Tarras: A tiny town in airport shock - full report". Crux. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
^"Christchurch Airport unveils new long-term proposal for mid to lower South Island". Christchurch Airport. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
^"Tarras airport site likely to accommodate wide-bodied jets". NBR | The Authority since 1970. 24 September 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
^"Experts suggest Queenstown airport is moved - and not to Wanaka". Crux Media. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
^"Queenstown international airport decision 'years away' despite report - mayor". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
^McNabb, Denise. "How Canterbury quakes drove the Tarras airport dream". businessdesk.co.nz. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
and 22 Related for: Central Otago Airport information
CentralOtagoAirport (also known as Tarras Airport) is a proposed airport near Tarras in CentralOtago, New Zealand. The controversial proposal was announced...
International Airport at Momona is the area's most important transport hub, though most of the people who use this travel only briefly through South Otago while...
centres. The urban area of Dunedin lies on the central-eastern coast of Otago, surrounding the head of Otago Harbour. The harbour and hills around Dunedin...
The public transport system of Otago centres around the cities of Dunedin and Queenstown, under the brand name Orbus. Public transport in the region is...
generally peaceful. In 1861, gold was discovered at Gabriel's Gully in CentralOtago, sparking a gold rush. Dunedin became the wealthiest city in the country...
Tarras is a small farming settlement in CentralOtago, in the South Island of New Zealand. Tarras is located on the slopes above the upper reaches of...
college in late 2009 which no longer operates in Alexandra. Nowadays, the CentralOtago Flying Club now operates a Cessna fleet consisting of a Cessna 172 (ZK-XPD)...
services to Mosgiel and Port Chalmers, railcars to Palmerston and the OtagoCentral Railway and other trains to Christchurch and Invercargill. The city's...
Oamaru (/ˌɒməˈruː/ ; Māori: Te Oha-a-Maru) is the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand, it is the main town in the Waitaki...
Queenstown, proposed connection with the Kingston Branch extension before OtagoCentral Railway route chosen. Culverden – Reefton line Culverden to Tophouse...
of high country farmers and hunters, particularly from areas such as CentralOtago and the Mackenzie Basin, who work large sheep stations, often employing...
/ˈmɒzɡiːl/ (Māori: Te Konika o te Matamata ) is an urban satellite of Dunedin in Otago, New Zealand, fifteen kilometres west of the city's centre. Since the re-organisation...
in the Otago Lakes Central Area which is one of three policing areas in the Southern District of the New Zealand Police. The Otago Lakes Central Area headquarters...
rain at Auckland Airport exceeding the previous record of 161.8 mm (6.37 in). January 2023 was declared the wettest month ever in central Auckland by NIWA...
(IATA: N/A, ICAO: NZCS) is a small airport 1 Nautical Mile (1.9 km) to the west of Cromwell township in CentralOtago in the South Island of New Zealand...
extremely wet on the West Coast of the South Island to almost semi-arid in CentralOtago and subtropical in Northland. The Meteorological Service of New Zealand...
African War memorial, Waimate". Dingwall, R. "Southern Man (Dunedin Airport)", Otago Sculpture Trust, 19 November 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2017. A Manifesto...
Mosgiel Central Seddon Park Wingatui Saddle Hill-Chain Hills East Taieri Halfway Bush Helensburgh Glenleith Fairfield (Dunedin City) Inlet Otago Harbour...
of Invercargill Georgetown, Otago, a locality in the Waitaki Valley Georgetown Airport (disambiguation), various airports Georgetown railway station (Scotland)...
Global Information
