Airways
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Trans Pacific Services
US - HAWAII - BRISBANE - SYDNEY Qantas, with 7075, operates via Brisbane, leaving Sydney on Thurs., departing from San Francisco on Thurs.
SYDNEY - FIJI - TAHITI - MEXICO Qantas, with 7075, operates twice weekly out of Sydney on Tues. and Fri. and return out of Mexico City on Tues. and Sat. Stops at Acapulco.
SYDNEY - FIJI - HAWAII - CANADA CP Air, with DCBs, operates weekly services out of Sydney on Sat. and Vancouver on Thurs.
SYDNEY - NZ ■ HAWAII - US Air-NZ with DCBs, operates from Sydney to Los Anqeles, via Auckland and Honolulu on Mon., Fri., and Sat. and returns Mon., Wed., and Sat.
SYDNEY - NZ - TAHITI - US Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates from Sydney to Los Angeles, via Auckland and Papeete on Sun. and returns Fri.
SYDNEY - FIJI - HAWAII - US Qantas operates daily between Sydney and San Francisco via Fiji and Honolulu on Mon., Wed. Fri and Sat. with 7478 s and on Tues., Thurs. and Sun. with 7075. Additional services to Fiii from Australia on Fri., Sat. and Sun.
BOAC, with VCIOs, operates from Melbourne and Sydney to Los Angeles, and Los Angeles to Sydney and Melbourne daily except Mon. and Sat.
American Airlines, with 7075, operates three daylight flights from Sydney to Nadi and
Honolulu (Sat., Sun., Mon.), returning from Honolulu to Nadi and Sydney Thurs., Fri. and Sat.
Sydney - Fiji - Hawaii
American Airlines, with 7075, operates day light flights Sat., Sun., Mon., returning Thurs., Fri., Sat.
SYDNEY or NOUMEA - US (via FIJI,
Nz Or Tahiti)
UTA, with DCBs, operates out of Sydney on Tues. and Fri. and Noumea on Mon., Wed., Thurs., and Sun., NZ on Thurs.
SYDNEY - US (via N. CAL., FIJI,
Or Hawaii)
PanAm, with 7475, arrives Sydney from Los Anqeles, via Honolulu and Nadi, on Sun., Tues. and Thurs. and leaves on return flight the same days.
PanAm, with 7075, operates four days a week return trans-Pacific service out of Sydney and Los Angeles; Mon., Wed. and Fri. flights to Australia go to Melbourne and return to Sydney the same day. Mon. Sydney-LA flight is via Noumea and Honolulu. Jets connect with services to London, Europe and Far East. Jets fly Sydney-Hawaii non-stop both ways Wed., Fri. and Sat.
Melbourne - Fiji/Brisbane - Fiji
Qantas operates 707 s direct from Melbourne to Fiji on Fri. and Sat. and direct from Bris bane on Sat.
Melbourne - Fiji - Us
Qantas operates Melbourne/San Francisco via Fiji and Honolulu on Fri. with a 7478 and on Tues. and Thurs. with 7075.
Melbourne - Fiji - Hawaii
American Airlines, with 7075, operates day light flights from Melbourne Tues. and Thurs., leaving Honolulu on return Tues. and Sun.
MELBOURNE - NZ - HAWAII - US Air-NZ, with DCBs, leaves Melbourne for Los Angeles via Auckland and Honolulu, on Sat. and returns Wed.
MELBOURNE - NZ - TAHITI - US Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates from Melbourne to Los Angeles via Auckland and Papeete on Wed., returning on Sun.
NZ - AM. SAMOA - TAHITI or
Hawaii - Us
PanAm, with 7075, operates out of Auck land, via Tahiti, on Mon. and Wed., and via American Samoa and Honolulu on Thurs. and Sat. Los Angeles and San Francisco.
American Airlines, with 7075, operates out of Auckland to Honolulu, via Nadi on Wed. and Fri. and from Honolulu to Auckland, via Nadi on Mon. and Wed.
NZ - FIJI - HAWAII - US Air-NZ, with DCBs, leaves Auckland for Los Angeles, via Fiji and Hawaii on Thurs. and returns same day.
Fiji - Hawaii
American Airlines, with 7075, operates ou* of Honolulu to Nadi daily (Mon. and Wed. flights via Pago Pago), and from Nadi to Hono lulu daily (Wed. and Fri. flights via Pago Pago).
Canada - Fiji
CP Air with DCBs, operates from Vancouver to Nadi on Mon., returning Wed.
Australia-Far East
Sydney - Png - Far East
Qantas, with 7075, operates out of Sydney to Port Moresby, Manila and Hong Kong on Sundays; returns from Hong Kong to Sydney via Port Moresby on Sundays; and on Wed nesdays from Hong Kong via Manila and Port Moresby. A service from Port Moresby to Hong Kong operates on Fridays.
Australia-New Zealand
Qantas, Air-NZ, BOAC and UTA operate regular trans-Tasman services. Qantas and Air-NZ link major NZ cities with Australian east coast cities.
Australia-Pacific Islands
(For other schedules touching these islands see also trans-Pacific services.)
Melbourne ■ Noumea - Nauru -
Tarawa And Majuro
Air Nauru operates a twice-weekly service, Melbourne-Brisbane-Noumea-Honiara-Nauru and return, using a Fokker 28 jet. Extra services are operated twice weekly to Majuro and weekly to Tarawa and return.
Details: Nauruan Government Office, 227 Collins St., Melbourne.
Sydney - Fiji
Air-lndia, with 7075, operates weekly services to Nadi on Tues., returning to Sydney on Wed.
Sydney - Lord Howe Is.
Airlines of NSW, with flying-boats, operates four times weekly, return services from Rose Bay, Sydney, to Lord Howe. Extras on holidays.
Sydney - New Caledonia
Qantas and UTA operate Sydney to Noumea Mon., Tues., Wed., Fri.; and Noumea to Sydney on Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat.
Aust. - New Zealand - Fiji
BOAC, with VClOs, operates Mon. from Sydney to Auckland and Fiji on Sat. from Mel bourne to Auckland and Fiji on Monday.
Sydney - Norfolk Is.
®. a I ,tas '.. with . DC4s ' operates three times weekly. More in holiday periods.
Australia - Png
TAA and Ansett, with 727 s or DC9s, operate 4 times a week from Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne to Pt. Moresby. . T AA Fokkers operate Townsville, via Cairns, or Port Moresby on Mon., returning same day sy same route. Tues. and Thurs., Townsville via Cairns to Port Moresby, and Port Moresby 0 Brisbane, via Cairns, Townsville, Mackay and Rockhampton on Thurs. TAA operates a DC9 T' Jet service on Mons. from Brisbane to Port Moresby, leaving Port Moresby at 1345 hrs. rues, for Honiara, continuing through to Sydney na Cairns, Townsville, Mackay and Brisbane irnving in Sydney at 2130 hrs. Tues.
Ansett, with Fokkers, operates Wed. service airns-Port Moresby-Cairns-Townsville, and a hursday service Port Moresby-Cairns
New Zealand-Pacific Is.
(See also trans-Pacific services.)
Nz - Am. Samoa
PanAm, with 7075, operates from Auckland i p a9°, Pago on Thurs. and Sat., and returns n Wed. and Fri.
Nz - Fiji
Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates daily return srvices from Auckland to Nadi.
Nz • Fiji - Am. Samoa
Li jf wit *V °P era tes services out of uckland on Tues. and Sat. and from Pago ago on Tues. and Fri. iita NZ - TAHITI u ™' . with DCBs, operates weekly from id k wid °A n M7 d - ar li nro and returns Mon nmVwn«irjNZ' ,th DCBs ' °P erat es weekly om Auckland on Sun., returning Sat.
Nz - New Caledonia
UTA W!th [JCBs operates weekly from Noumea i Wed. and return Fri.
Air-NZ, with DCBs, leaves Auckland Sundays r Noumea and returns same day
Nz - Norfolk Is.
Air-NZ with chartered Qantas DC4s, operates ce weekly, leaving Norfolk Is. on Sat. and Jckiand on Sun.
Nz * Fiji • Hawaii
rA ir ‘tn Z c - ,th ° CBs ' operates out of Auck * Fm and Honolulu on Thurs., and out Honolulu to Fiji and Auckland on Thurs Amencan Airlines, with 7075, leave Auck id for Honolulu, via Nadi, on Wed. and Fri. d return over same route Mon. and Wed.
Inter - Territory Services
Tahiti - Easter Is. ■ Chile
LAN-Chile, with 7075, operates weekly, leav ing Santiago Thurs., arriving Papeete Thurs. evening, dep. Fri. evening, arr. Santiago Sat!
Stopover Easter Is. each way,
Fiji - Geic
Air Pacific, with 7485, operates from Suva to Tarawa via Nadi and Funafuti on Satur days and returns to Suva via Funafuti and Nadi on Sundays.
Geic - Nauru
Air Pacific and Air Nauru each operate fort nightly between Nauru and Tarawa (weekly service).
Nauru . Marshall Is.
Air Nauru makes a twice-weekly flight Nauru- Majuro and return.
Fiji - Western Samoa
Air Pacific, with BAC 1-1 Is, operates on& service a week from Suva to Apia, returning the same day. This flight crosses the Inter national dateline.
Polynesian Airlines, with 748, operates one service a week from Nadi to Apia, leaving Nadi on Fri. Return service from Apia to Nadi, leaves Apia on Thurs.
Papua New Guinea - Singapore
Qantas, using 7075, operates from Port Moresby to Singapore via Darwin on Thursdays; and returns from Singapore to Port Moresby via Darwin on Thursdays.
Western Samoa - Tonga
Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates three services weekly from Apia to Tonga on Mon., Wed., Fri. Return service from Tonga on Tues., Thurs. and Sat.
FIJI - N. HEBRIDES - BSIP - P. MORESBY Air Pacific, with BAC 1-1 Is, operates from
Suva on Sun., Wed. and Fri., via Nadi to Vila.
BAC 1-1 Is operate from Suva to Honiara via Nadi and Vila on Wed. and Sun., the Sunday service extending to Port Moresby, Planes leave Honiara on Mon. and Wed. for Suva and return from Port Moresby on Mon. only.
Fiji • Tonga
Air Pacific with 748 s operates from Suva to Nukualofa four times a week.
Fiji • Wallis/Futuna
Fiji Air Services operates weekly services to Wallis and Futuna Is.
Details: Fiji Air Services, P.O. Box 1259, Suva (22-666).
Fiji - Am. Samoa • Hawaii
American Airlines, with 7075, operates out of Honolulu to Nadi daily (Mon. and Wed. via Pago Pago), and Nadi to Honolulu (Wed. and Fri., via Pago Pago).
FIJI - AM. SAMOA - COOK IS.
Air Pacific (chartered by Air-NZ) with HS74Bs, operates a weekly service from Nadi to Rarotonga, via Pago Pago (technical stop),
returning via Aitutaki and Pago Pago. Service leaves Nadi on Wed. and returns on Thurs.
This flight crosses the International dateline, Hawaii am SAMOA . MA ,' VA 7 ‘ c Hrmni.il., P D anAm ' D th °iwI eS ct-™ m a nH°£ai U ° t 0 Pago Pa9 ° on We ° ,# Thurs., Fri. and Sat.
Hawaii - Am. Samoa - Tahiti
PanAm, with 7075, operates to Tahiti, via Pago Pa 9° on Thurs. and Sat. and to Tahiti on Tues. and Sat.
Hawaii - Micronesia ■ Okinawa
Continental-Air Micronesia with 727 s operates from Honolulu, Wed. and Sun. via Midway (fuel stop only), Kwajalein, Majuro, Ponape, Truk, Guam and Saipan; Tues. to Okinawa from Guam and Saipan. Return to Honolulu Wed. and Sat.
New Caledonia - New Hebrides
UTA, with Caraveiles, operates five return services a week, out of Noumea on Mon., Wed., Thurs., Fri. and Sat. to Vila. Returning Mon., Wed., Fri. (2 flights) and Sat.
NEW CAL. - WALLIS IS. - NEW CAL.
Ul A, witn Caraveiles, operates a twice monthly service, leaving Noumea on the second and third Tues. of the month.
New Guinea • West Irian
TAA operates DC3s Madang to Diayapura and return alt. Tues.
Png - Solomons
TAA operates Fokker and DC3s three times weekly. Wed. aircraft leaves Pt. Moresby for Honiara, returning Thurs. Tues. and Sat. air craft leave Rabaul for Honiara via Buka, Kieta, Munda, Yandina, returning Wed. and Sun. A daily Fokker also leaves Pt. Moresby direct to Kieta, returning next morning.
Tahiti • Us
UTA, with DCBs, operates on Sun., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat. (non-stop from Papeete to Los Angeles), and returns the same day.
PanAm, with 7075, operates to San Francisco, via Los Angeles on Mon., Tues. and Fri.; to San Francisco, via Honolulu on Tues. and Sat.,- and to San Francisco, via Pago Pago and Honolulu, on Sun, and Thurs.; from San Francisco via Honolulu and Pago Pago, to Tahiti on Sat., and from San Francisco, via Los Angeles, to Tahiti on Mon., Wed. and Sat.
W. Samoa - Am. Samoa
Polynesian Airlines, with HS74B and DC3, operates between Apia and Pago Pago (six services, Fri.; three Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Sat., Sun.
Tonga - Niue - W. Samoa
Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates weekly service from Tonga to Niue, leaving Tues., arriving Niue Mon., leave Niue Mon., arrive Apia i.ame day.
Tahiti - Cook Is.
Air Tahiti with Piper Aztec, operates char ter service from Papeete to Rarotonga.
Details from Air Polynesie, P.O. Box 314, Quai Bir Hakeim, Papeete, and UTA offices.
Internal Services
Fiji
Air Pacific, with HS74Bs, BAC 1-1 Is and Herons operates regular services to Labasa, Matei, Nadi, Nausori and Savusavu Fiji Air Services, with Beech Baron and Nor man Islander aircraft, operates txo Ovalau Is., Korolevu, Natadola, Deuba and Castaway Island resort.
Details: Fiji Air Services, P.O. Box 1259, Suva (telephone 22-666).
French Polynesia
Air Polynesie, with Fokker F 27 Friendship, DC4s, Twin Otters and Islanders, operates to Bora Bora, Huahine, Moorea, Rangiroa, Raiatea, Manihi and Marquesas.
Details from Air Polynesie, P.O. Box 314, Quai Bir Hakeim, Papeete, and UTA offices.
Air Tahiti, with light aircraft, operates shuttle service from Papeete to Moorea and charter service to Raiatea, Bora Bora, Huahine, Rangiroa and Manihi.
Gilbert And Ellice Islands
Air Pacific, with Herons, operates regular services between Tarawa, Butaritari, North Tabiteuea and Abemama.
Guam - Us Trust Territory
Continental-Air Micronesia with 727 s and DC6s operates regular service connecting Honolulu, Okinawa and Guam with Saipan, Rota, Yap, Palau, Truk, Ponape, Kwajalein and Majuro.
Details from Air Micronesia, Saipan.
Air Pacific Inc. (not connected with the Fiji based Air Pacific) with Piper Navajos, operates regular services linking Guam, Saipan, Tinian, and Rota, and charter services are available to other Trust Territory islands.
Details, Air Pacific Inc., c/- Micro! Corp., (P.O. Box 267, Saipan, Mariana Islands 96950 (telephone 6462).
Lagoon Aviation Inc. with Grumman Wid geons, operates charter services for the Mar shalls district, based on Majuro.
Papua New Guinea
TAA operates scheduled services throughout the territory, and has Fokkdi*; DC3 and Twin Otter aircraft available for charter.
Ansett operates throughout the territory.
Aerial Tours operates in Central, Western, Culf and Sepik districts.
Territory Airlines, a charter and third level airline, operates from Madang, Goroka, Mt.
Hagen, Giimbu and Mendi to Highland and coastal centres.
Macair operates throughout the territory.
Bougainville Air Services operates charter and fare services daily throughout Bougain ville, in Cessna and Britten-Norman Islander aircraft. Details: Arawa, Phone 956-159; Buka, Phone 16. Box 298, PO, Kieta.
New Caledonia
Air Caledonie, with Twin Otters, and Is landers operates regular services to Houai lou. Isle of Pines, Isle Ouen, Kone, Koumac, Lifou, Mare, Noumea, Ouvea Touho, Mueo, Belep, Tiga.
Details from Air Caledonie, Noumea.
New Hebrides
Air Melanesiae with Britten-Norman Islanders operates to Santo, Malekula (Norsup and Lamap), Aoba (Walaha and Longana), Pentecost (Lono rorc), Erromanga, Tongoa, Aneityum, Tanna and Vila. Direct connections are available to and from Santo for all international flights arriving m Vila with the exception of UTA's Caravelle Service from Noumea on Monday afternoons Details from Air Melanesiae, P.O. Box 72 Vila.
Solomon Islands
Solair, with Beech Barons and Islanders operates to Auki, Avu Avu, Barakoma, Bellona is., Fera Is., Gizo Honiara, Kira Kira, Marau Munda Parasi, Sege, Yandina, Santa Cruz Mono Rennell Is. Choiseul Bay and Ballalae.
Details from Solomon Islands Airways Ltd Box 23, Honiara, BSIP.



