Nadi Airport Prepares

For Comet Airliners

SUVA, April 22.

NADI international airport is to be equipped with a third runway and full facilities to cope with the British Comet jet airliners which are expected to be introduced to the trans-Pacific service by CPAL later -his year. That a third runway was feasible was decided at the fourth inference, held at Nadi, of the South Pacific Committee on Air Navigation md Ground Organisation (CANGO) between April 17 and 22.

CANGO will recommend four nain points to the South Pacific Air [Yansport Council which will also neet at Nadi, in June. They are: 1) The third runway, with slight dterations to the direction proposed n the original plan. (This runway vill meet all Comet requirements and vill carry virtually all the Nadi traffic, :xcept in unusual wind conditions). 2) A master plan is proposed to :over the whole airport area. (3) Adequate ground and air naviga ional aids to be provided. (4) The instruction of new buildings, ser vices and amenities and the improve nent of some of those already exist ing.

The CANGO delegates, represent ng the United Kingdom, Australia, ''Jew Zealand and Fiji, unanimously xpressed the opinion that their Nadi onference had been the most suc essful to date.

It was originally estimated that kadi’s third runway would cost C 1,300,000. But the new alignment 5 expected to result in a considerable aving.