Despite obvious challenges lurking at the horizon the Omarama Airfield Company is looking forward to this year’s soaring season with cautious optimism. And that is buoyed by the prospects of a good return on the land it has decided to subdivide and sell to build financial reserves. The council-controlled organisation’s chairperson Clive Geddes said its annual report had recently been filed with Waitaki District Council and the company had adopted its budget for the year ahead. It was a budget which allowed for “a very slight element of growth compared to last year.” It was still “quite conservative” because the company was not anticipating a large increase in activity on the airfield because of the Covid situation. “Our priority remains maintaining the standard of the airfield - that is, making sure that it's . . .
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