[annzabelle]

We have a lot of long term connections in the industry in NZ. I'm simplifying a little, but the process for a district council to hire us to do the same thing the next district council over paid us to do last year is relatively straightforward.

The sinkhole thing is a really long story, and a lot of it is that my boss is an old, eccentric, PhD who has zeroed in on this.

LaGuardia has sinkholes because it's built on a crazy substructure of rotting wooden pilings and metal framework.

We don't expect them to pay us, my boss (remember, 70 year old Kiwi) thinks you can just call airports up and get on the runway. To be entirely fair, if a sinkhole opened up at Invercargill airport, we could be on the runway tomorrow, and probably next week at Christchurch. He just doesn't realize that NYC is not the South Island.

[superxpro12]

That sounds more like a local airport kinda thing. I'm sure any kind of bush airport this is no problem. But not one of the busiest federal airports... thats just an entirely different scenario.

[annzabelle]

I think part of it is that even at the busiest airport on the South Island (Christchurch) this would be a doable ask for us. My boss just has no concept of what life is like in a large country, let alone a large city. He's thinking of LaGuardia Airport as just Christchurch Airport but larger.

[inigyou]

411,000: Population of Christchurch

8,600,000: Population of New York City (where LaGuardia is)

1,250,000: Population of New Zealand's South Island (where Christchurch is)

5,400,000: Population of New Zealand