November 7, 20214 yr 17 hours ago, ray hughes said: Cannot disagree - Number of reasons for this. The airport company works closely with its major customers. air New Zealand being its biggest. What they want and what the airport wants are often poles apart in terms of cost and design. The original International terminal was compact and a nice design. Subsequent expansions by different architectural and engineering planning teams over the decades, was around a pragmatic approach to changing regulation requirements and rapid expansion . When I joined (almost 16 years ago, I remember being led into a room that had a large model of the airport of the future. Subsequent development has incorporated aspects of this plan in a bits and pieces approach. This had led to such things as Pier B International having one design for two gates, and a different design and approach for the other 2 gates built just 5 years later. (Gates 15 through 18 if your interested). There are further Large developments planned such as additional multi storied car parks, a new hotel, externally complete, but internally yet to be fitted out, and new Pier Arm - (5 year plan) - also a second runway to the north of the existing one. The CEO's tend to change regularly and also the board (every 5 years or so - the latest lasted 9 ). Like all airports, appointments can be political - and indeed the Government has some say in requirements - So all these factors have led to the loss of attractively designed cohesive long term design plan for the airport. The only real solution is to build a brand new terminal (costing billions) north of where we are positioned now, on slightly higher ground - but I cannot see this happening in the next xx years. - Just my 2 cents! Thank you for you extensive reply. I did not mean to disrespect this airport in particular as this seem to be the case at a lot of them across the world. I think it stems from a comparison to the more recent larger airport designs that are more 'cohesive' so to say. Thanks again. CPU: Core i5-6600K 4 core (3.5GHz) - overclock to 4.3 | RAM: (1066 MHz) 16GB MOBO: ASUS Z170 Pro | GeForce GTX 1070 8GB | MONITOR: 2560 X 1440 2K
November 9, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, Beagle12 said: Just went to purchase it and it says "SOLD OUT" !! not yet available. "W T F does that mean ??" you think that was neccessary? AMD 7800X3D, Windows 11, Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX Motherboard, 64GB DDR5 G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB (AMD Expo), RTX 4090, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 2 TB PCIe 4.0, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 1 TB PCIe 4.0, 4K resolution 50" TV @60Hz, VR: Pimax Crystal Light + HP Reverb G2 @ 90 Hz, Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant, be quiet 1000W PSU, Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black air cooler. 60-130 fps. no CPU overclocking. very nice.
November 9, 20214 yr 6 minutes ago, Beagle12 said: How does "not yet available" translate to SOLD OUT ??? It looks cooler.
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