Continental Wants To Spread Its Wings
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Less than a month after a PanAm request to operate three Boeing 707 flights a week between Saipan, Marianas, and Tokyo, Japan (page 135), Con tinental Airlines, operator for Air Micronesia, has requested five flights a week between Saipan and Guam to Tokyo and Osaka.
Continental has not named which aircraft it would use on the run, but says the route, on its regularity, would gross 5U53,039,100 annually.
Both requests are subject to Japanese and American Govern ment approvals. They indicate a growing Japanese tourist flow to Micronesia.
In December, Air Micronesia’s fortnightly 727 flights to Nauru,
out of Majuro, Marshalls, began (PIM, Dec., p. 65). Calls at Nauru are made on alternate Thursdays. Jets leave Hawaii 7.45 a.m. Wednesdays, cross the dateline, and arrive at Majuro, 10.55 a.m. Thursday, leave Majuro 11.25 a.m. and arrive at Nauru 12.40 p.m.
The jet departs Nauru 1.10 p.m. and arrives at Majuro 2.25 p.m., continuing onto Guam, via Kwajalein and Truk.
Fiji Airways’ HS74B weekly service to Nauru, for travellers from Fiji, arrives at Nauru at 4.20 p.m. Fridays, and departs Nauru, for Fiji, via the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, at 7 a.m.
Saturdays. Air Micronesia flights to Nauru for January are on 15 and 29.