Five-Figure Statistic
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Megapode Airways, the pioneer Solomon Islands airline, which started operations three years ago with a De Havilland Dove aircraft, carried its 10,000 th passenger in December.
Sill AAaelilia, a carpenter with the BSIP Public Works Department, bought the 10,000 th ticket at Honiara for a flight to Kira Kira. The airline presented him with a transistor radio and a free return ticket.
Megapode Airways' chief pilot, Mr.
Harold Hall, says that at the present rate of development, the airline will carry its 20,000 th passenger in less than two years.