Polynesian Pacific
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Lengthy Preparations
For:
New Air-Lines for Polynesian Pacific
IT has been demonstrated lately that the establishment of a new air service in the Pacific area is a complicated, costly, and tedious operation.
Samoan Airlines Ltd., like South Pacific Airlines, expected to be in operation many months ago; but the searching official investigation of equipment, finances, and technical facilities apparently has caused de day in owners’ plans.
Samoan Airlines, formed to operate from Pago Pago a regular inter-Samoa service, and an irregular service to other points, reports that Mr. Lawrence M. Coleman (pre sident) was in Washington, DC, in February, working out with the US licensing authorities the final de tails of the schedules of flights.
Palmyra Island is now mentioned as being a regular port of call for this airline. It was stated that Mr.
Coleman was discussing finances in New York with Mr. George W.
Murphy, his vice-president.
From Honolulu, it was reported that Mr. S. Van Burkleo, president of South Pacific Airlines, had left for Christmas Island —the proposed re-fuelling point on the route *to Tahiti—with an engineer, to sur vey the work required on ground facilities there before the service can commence. There were then firm hopes of starting the long-planned Honolulu-Papeete service in April.
Possible alterations in airline schedules in other Pacific areas are reported elsewhere in this issue.