Queenstown Airport gears up for expansion, resumes dividend

Queenstown Airport gears up for expansion, resumes dividend
Time for Queenstown Airport to spread its wings, says new CEO. (Image: Matt Wong, GSLH)
Brent Melville
Glen Sowry didn’t see a single plane in the sky during his first three days at the helm of Queenstown Airport.Sowry, appointed as Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC) chief executive last September, had to wait until the fourth day on the job to start seeing air traffic come into what would otherwise have been the country’s fourth-busiest air terminal.By the end of his first week, there were flights arriving from Wellington and Christchurch as the covid shackles gradually came off. But Sowry and his 55 Queenstown colleagues had...

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