Samoan Airlink

Is Back

Polynesian Airlines has begun its new services between Apia and Tafuna with these two new Per civ a I Prince aircraft, which have arrived in West Samoa from Tanganyika. The photograph above, by Samoana, snows the crowd inspecting them at the airport.

CJERVICES were suspended last year when Polynesian’s only air craft was wrecked on landing, and the two Samoas have since been without an airhnk. When the TEAL Coral Route service is again extended to Samoa in June, Polynesian Air lines will make connections.

Other recent aviation develop ments: New Caledonia’s internal airline, Iranspac, has bought a second de Havilland four-engined Heron, and delivery was being made in France in May The plane will fly to New Caledonia via Australia. The Trans pac fleet now consists of two Dragons and two Herons and local reports say that services inside of New Caledonia are likely to be developed. Most of

Transpac’s present activities are con cerned with Loyalty Islands and the Isle of Pines.

In May, Qantas gained extra traffic rights in the Philippines, enabling passengers travelling by this airline on the Australia-Hongkong-Tokyo route to break their journey at Manila.

Qantas has been calling at Manila for years for refuelling but passengers have not been able to stop off there— or, if they did, they had to travel on by another airline.

Qantas operates four flights in each direction each week between Australia and Hongkong with a call at Manila.

Two of the flights also call at Darwin and go on to Tokyo from Hongkong.

The other two flights call at Port Moresby, miss Darwin and terminate at Hongkong. There is the likelihood of changes being made to these services as a result of DCS aircraft being used some time next year.