PHOTO: Lighting ridge airport. Image: Airlink.
Walgett Shire Council mayor Jason Ramien has told the Western Plains App that the runways at Lightning Ridge airport should be urgently upgraded because it is preventing some medical flights from taking off at the airport.
The shire’s GM Megan Dixon met with the the Border Regions Organisation of Councils (BROC) to show the shire’s support for be made by BROC on behalf of member Councils, to the Australian Government for improved funding for rural airports.
It comes as it was rejected for funding in Round 10 of the Remote Airstrip Upgrade Program, with Nyngan Airport the only location in the western plains to receive support in that round…