Talk:Wellington Airport

Nz's least safest airport is questionable
Wellington is New Zealand's least safest Airport, with a 1.7% crash rate on landing which ranks at 27th in the Worlds Most Dangerous Airports as of 2011.

The above unreferenced comment was added recently to this page - 1.7% crash rate of what? That would mean a crash of about 1 every 6 hours?? I would want to see better evidence of this claim. I have removed. Andrewgprout (talk) 10:52, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

United and Vigin Samoa removed
Neither airline should be listed - United are code share flights with ANZ. Although you may regularly see the Virgin Samoa painted plane at WLG this will not be going to Apia nor will it be a Virgin Samoa flight - will be Virgin Oz to Brisbane or Sydney. Andrewgprout (talk) 00:50, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Sir Edmund Hillary Photo - expand covering text
The aircraft in the background of the photograph of Sir Edmund Hillary appears to be a RNZAF de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver. The actual aircraft in the photo is referenced in the Wikipedia article on the Beaver - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-2_Beaver. This information would add to the Hillary photo caption. If there are no objections I will update the caption to reflect the additional information. Mac160 (talk) 04:58, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It would be good to add that information to the photograph's description page, whether or not it is added to the caption here. It would also be great if someone could identify the buildings in the background, and perhaps their location on the airport. --Tony Wills (talk) 09:07, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Decoration vs Illustration
The article seems to contain a lot of photographs of aircraft, some of which are not illustrating the article text, but just decorating the page. Below I have seperated the photos into three groups: Left = keep (illustrate article), centre = maybe keep, right = remove from this article.


 * I would also only leave File:Wellington airport aerial.jpg in the info box, and add a panoramic view of the airport to the body of the article. We also need historic and modern photos of the terminal buildings (don't we?)
 * Any thoughts? --Tony Wills (talk) 10:20, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Destinations
I am about to revert a reversion that has been made to a change I made to the destination box for Air2there removing Nelson as a destination. Nelson in this context does not fit within the definition of the style guide at....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Aviation/Style_guide#Destination_list

which I have repeated bits of here for clarity.

Do not list secondary carriers for code share flights. For example, if Air New Zealand operates a domestic flight under its own flight number and an additional Singapore Airlines codeshare, the codeshare should not be listed.

For flights operated by one airline but marketed by another, so that the flight uses only the marketing airline's flight number, avoid using the term dba, an abbreviation of the American business term doing business as.

List non-stop and direct flights only. That means the flight number and the aircraft, starts at this airport and continues to one or more airports. Avoid using the description 'via' since that is more correctly listed as another destination. If passengers can not disembark at a stop on a direct flight, then do not list it as a destination or as 'via'. Direct flights are not always non-stop flights. However, avoid listing direct flights that contain a stop at a domestic hub, as virtually all of these are simply flights from one "spoke city" to a hub, with the plane continuing from the hub to a second spoke city. Furthermore, these flights often involve plane changes, despite the direct designation. Including these flights dramatically increases the length of destination listings, artificially inflates the airline's presence at a location and requires constant updating, as these "timetable direct" destinations have little rhyme or reason and may change as often as every week or two.

For flights that do not operate year round, add - [seasonal] - after the destination. eg: (Chicago-Midway [seasonal]). Do not add beginning or ending dates. For future destinations, add: "[begins date service begins]" - after the destination. For destinations with termination dates that have already been announced, add: "[ends date service ends]" - after the destination. Dates should include the year.

Andrewgprout (talk) 00:55, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Air 2 there and I disagree with you on this one WLG to NSN is bookable just because it has 1 stop enroute (on wednesdays) it does not qualify for inclusion? If you follow this rule all one-stop flights cannot be included in wikipedia e.g. Air NZ don't fly AKL to LHR as it has a stop in LAX. Where does it end.CHCBOY (talk) 06:58, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

CHCBOY - Please read the style guide - flights such as NZ1 are (cautiously) included within the definition. Air2there to Nelson isn't. The fact that it is bookable is not a criteria that can be used. And anyway the 1 May flight you appear to have based the addition of Nelson as a destinaion appears to be one way, only available on that particular day (or maybe irregularly - it certainly isn't every Wednesday from what I can see), and is still via Blenheim, and we don't know if it has a common flight number, and is not in the printed timetable - http://www.air2there.com/Timetable.aspx. The style guide is very clear what should be included. Remember this is an encyclopedia is is not the place for minute esoteric detail - the information presented actually needs to be useful. I hope that explains where I am coming from. Andrewgprout (talk) 08:17, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

WLG-PPQ 8:20-8:40 AM PPQ-NSN 9:00-9:45 AM On fridays the reverse 1 stop flight operates NSN-PPQ 2:10-3:00 PM PPQ-WLG 3:30-3:50 PM
 * To be exact it is a direct flight so should be included. Have another look at the search function every Wednesday flight operates with a 20 min stop at PPQ not BHE.

The timetable has yet to be updated to reflect the latest changes. I recomend to put it back with (resumes 1st May 2013) for clarity.CHCBOY (talk) 20:38, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

CHCBOY Please Please read and understand the style guide before you make other edits -  These flights - you are right do exist - All 4 are on the published timetable at the URL detailed above. However they do NOT qualify for inclusion based on the style guide, on two points. One - each sector is a different flight number "List non-stop and direct flights only. That means the flight number and the aircraft, starts at this airport and continues to one or more airports." and Two - the warning about including flights via hubs appears to also apply in this case (see above). The online booking form - particularly this one in my opinion - should not be used as a valid reference as you really can't tell weather any particular flight(s) you book has some regularity nor do you know the flight numbers. Also what you are doing is pretty close to original research which should be avoided in the wikipedia world. Andrewgprout (talk) 03:33, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

SP era runway markings
Special markings on the runway assisted Qantas pilots where to touch down and to abort and go round to attempt a landing again[citation needed].

I have added a citation needed here. I seem to remember that there was some special markings on the runway to aid 747 landings at Wellington, the story I remember was that this was in response to pilots tending to over compensate for the shortness of the runway and landing too close to the threshold. So they were aiding, landing further down the runway rather than marking an abort point. Andrewgprout (talk) 03:17, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

I write here to thank the community for the excellent description of the runway situation. Well done! Ydhirsch (talk) 20:56, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Contradiction
"The North West Pier contains 10 gates (21-29 if domestic or 41-49 if international), 7 with jetbridge. Gates 21 to 24 are used by Jetstar services. Gates 45 to 49 serve all international flights."

So are the international gates 41-49 or 45-49. This should be clarified, because at the moment the article seems to be contradicting itself. Videomaniac29 (talk) 07:29, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes I went to the source: http://www.wellingtonairport.co.nz/contact/#airport_map_small and there it just states the gates are 21-29 domestic or 41-49 if it international. So I removed the rest which is not in the source. Although I have seen Jetstar use other gates at the pier it nearly always parks at gate 21.CHCBOY (talk) 11:36, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Hub / Focus city
IP editor 219.88.172.244 seems intent on insisting that WLG can be both a hub and a focus city for air new zealand which is I know a little thing but represents only one of a whirlwind of seemingly inappropriate edits over the last week or so made from this address. I'm in danger of the revert limit so I'm not going to revert the last edit. How does one request someone be blocked because I think this has gone past assuming good faith. Andrewgprout (talk) 02:05, 6 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Wellington is often called a secondary hub for Air New Zealand, but if that option is unavailable then 'hub' would be a sufficient description. It's certainly not a focus city AND a hub. As for the IP editor that's causing the problems, they certainly seem very persistent but I don't think a block is necessary yet, as it is still possible that they are editing in good faith. If this continues to be a problem then perhaps more action would be needed, but for now I think we should just revert any edits that are incorrect and hopefully the editor will stop adding incorrect information. It's only if they don't stop that further action would become necessary. OakleighPark (talk) 21:20, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

All Nippon Airways
All Nippon Airways started to do a charter flight to Wellington.So someone please add it in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gavinfu2016 (talk • contribs) 07:50, 9 November 2016 (UTC)


 * if there is a reference for such flights they can be added. Please note a one off flight with a trade delegation onboard is almost certainly not noteworthy enough to add. Andrewgprout (talk) 10:49, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Golden Bay Air
Regarding the daily flights from Wellington. The aircraft first stops in Takaka then continues onto Karamea as can be seen in the schedules on here: https://apps1.tflite.com/takeflitepubliccap/Default.aspx There is also the airline route map on the page title showing the flight route. They also write on here http://www.goldenbayair.co.nz/takakaflights.html

Golden Bay Air Scheduled Flights

Golden Bay Air operates year-round scheduled flights between Wellington, Karamea, Nelson and Takaka in Golden Bay From the schedules the aircraft departs Wellington > Takaka	9:30 AM	10:20 AM Then continues onto Karamea to arrive at 1230pm

Hope this explains the entry for this Wellington page.CHCBOY (talk) 10:26, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 12 August 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Consensus to move page. (non-admin closure) —  Young Forever (talk)   16:36, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Wellington International Airport → Wellington Airport – WP:COMMONNAME. Airport identifies itself as Wellington Airport, not Wellington International Airport. Zoltyge (talk) 06:27, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per COMMONNAME and CONCISE. --Ab207 (talk) 19:41, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Support as above, also consistent with other major airports in NZ, namely Christchurch Airport and Auckland Airport - both of which are (usually) substantially more focused on international travel than Wellington. Turnagra (talk) 19:18, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Done. -Kj cheetham (talk) 17:04, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

What does this even mean?
"Rongotai Airport opened with a tar runway in November 1929. The airport opened in 1935..." Tama Boyle (talk) 03:04, 15 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Fixed this and expanded history Wainuiomartian (talk) 04:37, 6 June 2024 (UTC)