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Why we want to fly to Auckland Int’l Airport

04/07/21

We’re (finally) getting serious about planning plane trips and visiting airports. And one airport on our “to do” list for when borders reopen is Auckland International Airport (AKL) in New Zealand. Especially now that we know about an award-winning landscape project by the San Francisco-based landscape architecture and urban planning firm Surfacedesign. The six-square-mile design →

Airport design

Greetings from New Zealand’s Auckland Airport

10/22/09

First impressions are important, especially if you’re a city and you’d like folks who are just passing through to come back and stay awhile. So you’d think every city would want its airport – its front door – to be all pretty and nice. Like, say, Auckland Airport. Check out what greets visitors arriving on →

Meeting Aviation Pioneer Jean Batten in Rotorua, New Zealand

10/20/09

Earlier this week, my short flight from New Zealand’s Rotorua Regional Airport to Auckland was canceled, so I ended up stuck at that tiny airport for a while. Good thing. The delay gave me a chance to look around. In addition to finding more than a half-dozen giant statues, I was able to learn a →

Stuck at the airport

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Meeting Aviation Pioneer Jean Batten in Rotorua, New Zealand