Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1966Vol. 37, No. 7

New Moves On Plan

p. 125 · Read in the full issue

Page 125125

For Chile-T Air Service

Further moves towards the establishment of an air service between Chile and Tahiti, via Easter Island, were made in late May and early June when General Alberto Parrague, of the Chilean Air Force, made his second Chile-Tahiti-Chile flight.

General Parrague completed the first flight last September in a Catalina aircraft ( PIM, Oct., 1965, p. 125).

On his latest flight, he was accompanied by top officials of the Chilean Government airline, LAN Chile.

According to Le Journal de Tahiti, the Chilean Government has already voted a sum of money to lengthen the existing airstrip at Mataveri on Easter Island to 2,000 metres. But it says that the airstrip will have to be lengthened to 3,200 metres before a Chile-Tahiti service can start.

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