Honolulu To Tahiti

Non-Schedule Air Service Announced

BECAUSE of the failure of the French > air services to continue with their trans-Pacific plans, French Oceania now about the most isolated of the tore important Territories of the South The only regular mails are those carried j r the Quarterly liners of Messageries Caritimes. Irregular mails are taken by jcasional freighters. Now and again, hen specially charted planes visit ahiti, airmails are carried.

It now seems likely that a plane will ) irregularly, about once a month, from onolulu to Tahiti, and return, and it ay carry mails. The following appeared i November 4 in the Honolulu Adver ser: Tahiti Hawaii Airways, with offices at .46 Kalakau Avenue, Honolulu, has ;en formed to meet an increasing de and for transportation between Tahiti id Hawaii. It is the first air line to be rmed for this specific purpose.

Principals in the new company are r illiam E. Pennington and Alexander aran. Pennington, a Honolulu business an, has been closely associated with the awaiian hotel and tourist industry, and aran, a former Honolulan, has been .ring and doing business in Tahiti during ie past 16 years, and is familiar with the irrent demand for Tahiti-Hawaii trans lation in the South Pacific.

Tahiti Hawaii Airways plans non heduled flights at intervals of about 30 lys, the first of which is scheduled for ecember. The latest type 42-passenger fing boat which assures comfort and ,fety will be used in the flights, making possible to land in the Papeete lagoon, i Tahiti.

Pennington and Taran said necessary amissions were obtained through the -operation of both French and Ameri n officials.

There has been a demand by Americans r transportation between Hawaii and ihiti since the end of World War 11, id the occasional surface transportation tween San Francisco and Tahiti has >w been booked up at least a year in 1 vance, * With the recent completion of accom odation in Tahiti, Papeete is now nipped to handle tourist groups. The nerican dollar will go far in French :eania, and Tahiti Hawaii Airways plan tes that will be within reach of every ie with the urge to visit this South icific paradise. ♦ ♦ ♦ It is a surprising thing that, consider g the amount of business done with istralia and New Zealand by French ;eania, there has been no extension of e Fiji-Cook Islands plane service to ihiti. There should be enough traffic make the enterprise worth while. The esent situation is a severe handicap on e French colony.