On 22 June 1999 Wellington's Evening Post newspaper published this special inset to celebrate the opening of the new Wellington Airport terminal, replacing the former aircraft factory that long served as the only terminal and in latter years was the Air NZ domestic terminal, and integrating with the international and Ansett terminals, to have a single modern Wellington airport terminal. Below is every page of this feature inset, including the advertisements of the era.
Page 2 summarises facts about the airport noted the terminal area is 33,644 m2, The total cost was $42m and was part of a $116m of development for the airport. 3.5m passengers per annum were seen at 1999 and forecast to be 6m by 2011. (it was 6.4m in 2019). The article on the terminal noted it was the first multi-user terminal in Australasia, combining domestic, international and commuter airlines sharing the same facility.
Notable at the bottom of the page is Ansett NZ advertising opening of its new Golden Wing Lounge, which would close in 2001 (with the space subsequently used by Qantas for its domestic Qantas Club, until it abandoned flying domestically in NZ by transferring services to Jetstar in 2009).
Page 3 describes the airport open day.
Page 4 has an article by then Mayor, Mark Blumsky which notes that international passenger number are up 34% between 1985 and 1999, and an article briefly summarising the airport's history.
Page 5 has articles about the airport open day.
Page 6 has an article on security and avoiding the "Y2K bug".
Page 7 has an article about preventing bird strikes.
Page 8 has articles about The Flower Factor and the Sunglass Store.
Page 9 has articles about the CD Store and Oceanic Arts.
Page 10 is an advertisement for shopping at the airport.
Page 11 has an article on the airport fire service, but also an ad for
Air Marlborough which flew scheduled services to Blenheim (and ceased operations later that year). The ad for Soundsair is one of the few for an airline still operating today.
Page 12 has a short article about the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry focusing on quarantine, but also interestingly has an ad for
Origin Pacific Airways, which competed with Air NZ on multiple routes at the time (and ceased scheduled services in 2006).
Page 13 has an article about the Customs service, and upgrade to the duty free shopping (with one shop at departures and one at arrivals).
Page 14 is an ad for visiting Wellington.
Page 15 focuses on development of the main catering facilities for passengers in the main part of the terminal.
Finally is the airport's largest customer, Air New Zealand.
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