Originally Posted by
macduffy
Yes, it's hard to see how Wellington Airport could attract an airline to contribute to the cost to enable it to fly to an Asian port, given the disparate destinations involved and the relatively small numbers of local passengers wanting to travel to each of them. Not much point in flying from Wellington to Singapore or Hong Kong for example if your destination is Shanghai, Beijing or Manila and there's a direct flight from Auckland or Sydney. A bit of realism from "Chalkie" - Pattrick Smellie - on this occasion.