National Party Pledge-Gate Ad
I’m not usually one to advertise other political parties, but this is good… (Scroll right.)
Apparently, this has been put up at Auckland and Christchurch airports but Wellington didn’t have the stones.
UPDATE (2/11/06): There’s a story about this in the Dom Post this morning. The print edition (p A2) has a full-page-width colour reproduction of the advertisement. There’s a suggestion in the story that Wellington Airport declined to allow the ad because of the pending decision by Pete Hodgson on the Qantas/Air New Zealand codeshare deal which could cut airport profits. If that is the case (and it may just be a journo interviewing his typewriter) then the chilling effect seems to have backfired.
November 3rd, 2006 at 11:21 am
Wellington Airport is managed by Infratil IIRC. I bet they would like the government to change its view that Whenuapai airport in Auckland should not have civilian operations based there as they have an agreement with the North Shore and Waitakere “City” councils to lobby for such an accommodation and to manage the operations.
February 29th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
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