Wellywood gets just 10%
November 21st, 2011 at 7:12 am by David FarrarThank goodness, the Wellywood option got under 10% of the vote. eye of the Taniwha got around around 35% and Wellington Blown Away got 65%.
Like many would have been happy with no sign, but at least we have a sign that won’t make us cringe and is slightly funny.
Now hopefully the airport company can go back to, well, running the aiport.
Number one priority should be to change the security check area to where the cafe is, so the Koru Club is within the security zone. In Auckland you can be on board your flight within a minute of the boarding call, while in Wellington you often need to then spend 5 – 10 minutes in a security queue before boarding.
Of course a more sensible option would to to abolish the security checks all together for domestic flights, but that is a Government decision. You have to endure them for Wellington to Auckland but not Wellington to Hamilton. Just classify all our flights as provincial.
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November 21st, 2011 at 7:43 am
A minor victory for the intelligent over the morons, but all the options are worse than just the bare hillside.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 8:05 am
I wouldn’t assume anything like that.
They have canvassed the public opinion before and then just boxed right on with what they had in mind.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 8:07 am
Auckland resident but travel to WLG weekly. Couldn’t give a rat’s about the sign on the hill but endorse the thoughts re the security nonsense. And that is what it is, a nonsense. Get rid of all security Xray screening stuff on internal flights and do it today – flying tomorrow morning so tomorrow is too late.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 8:08 am
HEAR BLOODY HEAR DPF!!!
The 10th anniversary of 9/11 would have been an appropriate time to review domestic security IMHO.
Vote:Are we investigating any current leads on potential Al Qaeda attacks on aircraft in NZ?
Have there been ANY credible threats of possible Al-Qaeda attacks on aircraft in NZ?
No?
Righto, let’s get rid of all this crap then…
November 21st, 2011 at 8:11 am
Bugger the Koru Club. Its what works for MOST travellers.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 8:12 am
Great, but they all suck.
I hope it returns to a bare hill eventually.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 8:33 am
It sums up vacuous Wellington: too much fuss and hype around a bloody sign.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 9:07 am
RRM “Have there been ANY credible threats of possible Al-Qaeda attacks on aircraft in NZ?
No? ”
Maybe not but we have had groups of terrorists training in the Ureweras
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 9:29 am
Al-Qaeda? No but then there was that woman who tried to hijack a prop plan a couple of years back.
The security is part of an international agreement and is required on all jet flights, which is why the provincial flights don’t require it.
Oh, and what is the point of a security check before the cafe where you can easily take the knife you used to cut your scone on to the flight?
[DPF: Look if someone tries to hijack a plane with a knife, they'll get beaten up by the other passengers. All we need is strong cockpit doors to stop them getting to pilots]
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 9:30 am
Just 10% voter turnout. That’s 90% who couldn’t care less.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 9:40 am
How about changing the site of the Koru Club instead to avoid blocking off the entire pre-departure lounge area to the great unwashed just for the benefit of Koru Club users? Don’t get me wrong, I was a Koru club member for a number of years and appreciated the chance to sit in quiet and basic comfort, even if the food and coffee are only marginally better than those on the plane itself.
But expecting the airport to be configured primarily for Koru Club members, to the disadvantage of others using the area, really can’t be justified.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 9:45 am
Pretty sure youd need a shotgun to get through the cockpit doors nowadays. Course, if they start slitting throats… maybe the pilots would feel bad.. maybe..
Koru Club – normally id agree. but the amount of govt workers & troughers i see in the wellington koru club, i say screw em.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 9:48 am
[DPF: Look if someone tries to hijack a plane with a knife, they'll get beaten up by the other passengers. All we need is strong cockpit doors to stop them getting to pilots]
In 9-11 they used box cutters. Any knife to someone’s throat will generally cool the heals of most people around.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 9:52 am
Number one priority would be to put travelators along the length of the walkways to give the poor people’s kids something to play on while they beg.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 9:54 am
Will yours be there?
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 10:13 am
Will yours be there?
Nah…The ones i haven’t beaten to death yet, I’ll be pimping in town to old rich white deviant muthafuckers.
No shortage of them around.
All part of my breeding for business strategy in keeping the child sex trade local. It sickens me no end that rich whitey invests in foreign economies with their adult/child love needs when we got so many goodlooking underclass kids here worthy of exploiting.
Where do you go to satisfy your manboy love needs Manolo ?
[DPF: 50 demerits]
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 11:15 am
>Number one priority should be to change the security check area to where the cafe is
Getting the planes away on time would be my number one.
I can live with the minor inconvenience of security checks when I’m going to be an umpteen thousand feet above the ground in a tin can with no parachute.
Good news on the sign, though.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 11:16 am
DPF – the other option is to go back to propellor driven planes for every route. Then we won’t need to change the rules at all.
Vote:You need security screening to board a jet in New Zealand, but not for a Propellor plane. Personally I’ll take the security check and the jet.
November 21st, 2011 at 11:55 am
So the wise burghers of Wellywood have decided that rather than celebrate the booming movie industry, they’d rather celebrate the fucking wind! Next, stuff “Absolutely Positively Wellington”…the new slogan will be “Windy Wellington” brilliant!
I used to live in Wellybobs many years ago, and I learnt that one thing that you can always bait the locals with is “Windy Wellington” – hook, line and sinker – everytime! Have the masochists taken over?
I flew into the capital yesterday (very lumpy landing, with a big thump onto the runway), and today it is blowing like 50,000 arseholes down in the Wellington CBD – so I guess the new logo is quite appropriate.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 11:59 am
Security is not exactly ‘over the top’ in NZ – but a reasonable reflection of our physical location / our risk profile / our obligation to countries and airlines with whom we share cabotage arrangements / our obligation to countries we fly to.
We actually have it lucky in NZ. Recent domestic flight Mumbai – Delhi, India:
1. At check in – dogs / security check of all luggage. ID checks (yes, even for domestic).
2. Entry air side – full pat down / inspection and X-ray of carry-on bags, laptops / walk through metal detector.
3. Exit to the aircraft gate – another pat down / walk through metal detector / carry-on bag X-ray including laptops.
All carried out under the watchful eye of military personnel armed with machine guns.
The same / similar rules apply in places such as Indonesia, Singapore, China, Japan, Taiwan, USA, Dubai, Saudi Arabia etc. In many locations, all belts, shoes and sometimes even watches have to be removed and put through the X-Ray. No big deal – it’s the way of the world, so get over a few security checks in Wellington.
Besides, the airport Company / AVSEC are simply following guidelines and rules as set out by the Government / by International Treaties and Bi-lateral Agreements.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 12:10 pm
hmmm…
Manolo drags my kids unneccesarily into a debate implying they’re poor and i beg, thus personalising the argument and looking to troll me for a reply in kind.
I do and get demerited. Thanks DPF…you’re too kind.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Suckered……….. Announcing the results where the most liked option was not listed at all.
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 1:59 pm
In 9-11 they used box cutters. Any knife to someone’s throat will generally cool the heals of most people around.
Not anymore….
Vote:November 21st, 2011 at 3:04 pm
David Farrar says:- “[DPF: 50 demerits]”
Unjust. He was provoked. Again. And was being ironic. Quite funny in a Southpark kind of way.
I thought you liked Southpark David.
[DPF: he is a troll. Around 1% of his posts are genuine contributions and 99% are just to antagonise people.]
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