At Auckland Airport, there's a lot of talk about "making your bed when you're standing on it".

The airport is booming, with more than 10.5 million passengers passing through the international terminal a year, at the same time as the company is pushing on with an unprecedented building programme.

Balancing the build - which airlines have labelled as an overdue catch-up - with the need to keep tens of thousands of passengers a day moving, and keeping hundreds of construction staff safe, has also been likened to "playing draughts while doing open heart surgery".

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