Air Services
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Network In Southwest Pacific
SINCE Qantas began to run a plane every fortnight from Lae (New Guinea) to Honiara (British Solo mons), via Rabaul and the Bougainville airfields, the Qantas service, Sydney-New Caledonia-New Hebrides-Solomons, has been reduced to Sydney-New Caledonia- New Hebrides, and return. The plane now does not go beyond Santo.
The network of services that has been put into the Southwest Pacific Islands in the last three years, to connect them with Australia and each other, is now very extensive.
Big passenger planes run frequently between Sydney and Papua-New Guinea.
Feeder services, off this main route, run out to Western Papua, Eastern Papua, Northern New Guinea, Manus, Northern New Britain, New Ireland and Bougain ville, There is also the direct service between Sydney and New Hebrides; another ser vice between Sydney and Suva (Fiji) via New Caledonia; and another from Sydney to Norfolk.
To get some idea of what air services now mean to the economy of the South Pacific Islands, readers should take a look at the Pacific air serices, set out in detail in the latter part of the PIM, every month.