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Eastern Samoa’s Ta[?] Airport Has ‘Non-Scheduled’ Serv [?]
Pan American Airv
made its first regular scheduled” flight thr Eastern Samoa’s Tafuna Ai southbound and northbound, in October.
Some survey flights were several mpnths ago, but c«: airport facilities had to be insa before the American Aeronautics Administration ■ sanction Tafuna for a ' scheduled” service.
It is expected that PAA will approximately monthly calls, aircraft was booked out Tafuna for the first northtf flight.
To the man in the street never quite clear how an a:j can be classed as suitable occasional “non-scheduled” flf yet not be approved for re scheduled services.
In the case of Tafuna much . money has to be spent on the port before it will be classify suitable for this purpose—ano same situation applies withr Santo, New Hebrides, airfields.; The position was clarified b Australian Civil Aviation offlc: r[E state and dimensions oc actual airstrips are onljA, aspect. An airfield maf quite suitable for the operatioc a certain type of aircraft r suitable weather conditions, be comply with International Aviation Organisation standard a fully approved international port, it must have all the vs facilities—radio, special ligH etc. —to permit landings und© weather conditions and so maii the published schedule.
For “non-scheduled” operas the aircraft may have to del© flight until the approved wee conditions exist, and approvae such flights may be conditt upon extra fuel (and passengers) being carried to p*c continuing on to another alterm airport in the event of weathr wind conditions preventing laL on arrival.