Talk:Bhisho

message: Can anyone provide a solid citation confirming the new name (Bhiso or Bhisho) as well as when the renaming took place?  I am almost certain that Bhiso is incorrect, and that the new name is Bhisho. I searched www.info.gov.za and it returned no results for Bhiso, but plenty for Bisho and some for Bhisho.  The same goes does the provincial website at www.ecprov.gov.za.  (Earlier, when I could not find any evidence for the name Bhiso, I attempted to move this page back to Bisho, but could not. I have reverted that move so that the page is still at the status quo location of Bhiso while we discuss this.)  Comments welcome.  Zaian 15:24, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name change

message: Please note the name is Bhiso.
The name of this town should be Bhisho, the spelling was corrected from the incorrectly spelt anglacised version "Bisho" as part of the goverment policy to correct an ammend place names.
I have serious issue with the categorization of Bhiso of a "boom town". The comment would seem accurate until the town is visited. It is mostly occupied by exclusively goverment buildings and has very little in the way of actual development occurring in it. Hence I dispute the accuracy of the statement and would suggest it be removed.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewalt (talk • contribs) 
:I've made the move, changed the spelling in the article, and removed some exaggerated claims about post-modern boom towns and fast-growing areas.  Regarding the spelling, Gregorydavid who earlier moved the page to the spelling Bhiso has acknowledged on his talk page that this was a mistake. Zaian 07:40, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that was just some silly vandalism from a school IP address. Zaian 14:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name and "boom" town status 

message: I have removed a sentence that stated that Bhisho Airport (BIY/FABE) had the longest runway in South Africa. Upington Airport in Northern Cape Province is famous for that, with its 4,900 m (16,076 ft) unusually long runway, which for a time appeared on the Guinness Book of Records as the world's longest airport runway (it is now the fifth longest, according to Wikipedia's list of longest runways, and the third longest in a commercial airport). Did they expand the runway at Bhisho to such uncanny lengths? Why? Upington had its logic at the time, as explained in the respective article, even if that logic eventually proved flawed and unnecessary after the end of apartheid. But why Bhisho?
A search at the very complete airport database at Landings.com gives Bhisho Airport a length of 2,499 m (8,200 ft) - an average second-tier airport with capacity for medium-sized jets such as a Boeing 737 or an Airbus A320. Searching on Google, I found some mentions that the airport is being expanded for the 2010 FIFA World Cup (it was not clear if this means the runway or just the terminal and facilities), but no mention to the runway becoming longer than Upington - which would certainly be big news for the region.
So, I saw no reason for that statement to remain, even with the "citation needed" tag, which most readers ignore (and with good reason, because in my experience, more often than not the qualified statement is true, albeit unsourced).
--UrsoBR (talk) 02:05, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Just a BTW. Upington's runway length has not in fact turned out to be "flawed and unnecessary after the end of apartheid" at it has become the preferred airport for very large cargo aircraft exporting fresh produce - short shelf-life high value fruit & vegetables, fresh fish, etc. Roger (talk) 09:46, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Airport with the longest runway? 

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