New Airway
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To Tahiti
A SECOND survey flight over the new TEAL route to Tahiti, via Western Samoa and the Cook Islands, commenced on September 6 from Suva, where a TEAL Cata lina is at present based.
A survey flight was recently com pleted by TEAL for the Civil Avia tion Branch of Air Department, but the second flight will be mainly for the company’s own purposes.
The aircraft will spend three days at Apia, one at Aitutaki and five at Papeete, and is due back at Auckland on September 22.
TEAL has named the new route “The Coral Route to the Islands of the South Seas.” It will be flown mainly by the company’s fifth Solent, RMA Aparima, which was due at Auckland on September 6 from Britain via United States.