Auckland Airport pays staff $1,500 bonus as tourism boom lifts 2016 profit by 17.4%

Auckland Airport pays staff $1,500 bonus as tourism boom lifts 2016 profit by 17.4%
Fiona Rotherham
By Fiona Rotherham Aug. 29 (BusinessDesk) - Auckland International Airport is paying its staff a $1,500 performance bonus after full-year profit and revenue benefited from the country’s tourism boom and a significant uplift in the number of international airlines and capacity servicing Auckland. In the year to June 30, total passenger movements were up 9.1 percent to 17.3 million while international passengers (excluding transits) rose 8.1 percent to 8.8 million and domestic passengers increased 9.8 percent to 7.9 million. That tourism...