TEAL And TAI Agree
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UNDER an agreement initialled in Wellington in July, by New Zealand and French Govern ment officials, Tasman Empire: Airways Ltd. is now assured an ex tension of its Coral Route service; beyond Tahiti, in exchange for TAJ] permission to operate into Sydney' by the Tasman Sea route through!
New Zealand.
Agreement with the US Govern ment for the use of Tafuna, American Samoa, and for rights for a service through Honolulu to Cali fornia, is expected to be reached.
Whether TEAL would in fact im mediately operate through to Cali fornia or would feed the Qantas service at Honolulu is apparently still uncertain.
The agreement cannot come into: operation, of course, until the air port at Papeete is completed— which will be about May, 1961, orr present indications —and until am airport capable of taking jets is? built at Auckland.
No W. Samoa Service
Of more immediate interest to: residents of Polynesia is the facti that TEAL is withdrawing its Solents from the Coral Route irr September. No official announce ment has been made concerning alternative plans, but unofficially it is expected that TEAL will us© DC6’s on the service Nadi-Aitutaki- Bora-Bora. As there are no air strips in Western Samoa capable of taking these planes it seems that Western Samoa will be with out a direct overseas air connec tion from September,