The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1973Vol. 44, No. 10

Airways

pp. 110-113 · Read in the full issue

Trans Pacific Services

SYDNEY - FIJI • TAHITI • MEXICO Qantas, with 7075, operates twice weekly out of Sydney to Mexico City via Nadi, Papeete and Acapulco.

SYDNEY - FIJI - TAHITI - CANADA Qantas, with 7075, operates weekly service out of Sydney.

SYDNEY • FIJI - HAWAII - CANADA CP Air, with DCS, operates twice weekly ser vices out of Sydney.

SYDNEY - NZ - HAWAII - US Air-NZ, with DClO's and DCB's operates from Sydney to Los Angeles, via Auckland and Honolulu four times weekly.

SYDNEY - NZ - TAHITI ■ US Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates from Sydney to Los Angeles, via Auckland and Tahiti twice weekly.

SYDNEY - FIJI - HAWAII - US Qantas operates four times weekly and return between Sydney and San Francisco via Fi|i and Honolulu with 74785; 707 s operate three times weekly and return to San Francisco via Honolulu. Additional 707 services Sydney/Nadi Tues. and Sat. and return.

BOAC, with VClOs, operates from Melbourne and Sydney to Los Angeles and return five times a week.

Sydney - Fiji • Hawaii

American Airlines, with 7075, operates three daylight flights from Sydney to Nadi and Honolulu and return.

SYDNEY or NOUMEA - US (via FIJI,

Nz Or Tahiti)

UTA operates out of Sydney three times weekly, and return.

SYDNEY - US (via N. CAL, FIJI,

Hawaii)

PanAm, with 7475, arrives Sydney from Los Angeles, via Honolulu and Nadi three times

weekly and leaves on return flight the same days.

PanAm, with 707 s operates four days a week return trans-Pacific service out of Sydney to Los Angeles, via Noumea and Honolulu.

Mon., Wed., Fri. flights to Australia go to Melbourne and return to Sydney the same day.

Mon.

Brisbane - Fiji

Qantas operates a 707 direct from Brisbane to Fiji on Sat. and Fiji to Brisbane on Sun.

Melbourne • Fiji • Us

Qantas with 707 s and 747 s operates Mel bourne/San Francisco via Fiji and Hpnolulu three times weekly; weekly 707 service on Sun. to San Francisco via Honolulu.

Melbourne - Fiji - Hawaii

American Airlines, with 7075, operates weekly daylight flights from Melbourne and return.

MELBOURNE - NZ • TAHITI - HAWAII - US Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates weekly from Melbourne to Los Angeles via Auckland and Tahiti, returning via Honolulu.

NZ - AM. SAMOA • TAHITI or

Hawaii - Us

PanAm, with 707 s operates out of Auck land via Tahiti three times weekly, and twice via American Samoa. Out of American Samoa, PanAm operates to the States three times weekly and out of Tahiti to the States four times weekly.

Auckland • Fiji • Hawaii

American Airlines, with 7075, operates out of Auckland to Honolulu, via Nadi and return three times weekly.

NZ - FIJI - HAWAII - US Air-NZ, with DClO's operates , weekly from Auckland to Los Angeles, via Fiji and Hawaii and returns same day.

Fiji - Am. Samoa - Hawaii

American Airlines, with 7075, operates out of Honolulu to Nadi daily (two fl| 9 h ts Xja Pago Pago), and from Nadi to Honolulu daily (two flights via Pago Pago).

Australia-Far East

Sydney - Png - Far East

Qantas operates a weekly 707 service from Brisbane to Hong Kong and return, and a weekly service from Hong Kong to ron Moresby and return.

Pacific-Far East

Nauru - Micronesia - Japan

Air Nauru operates a weekly service Nauru- Ponape-Guam-Okinawa-Kagoshima and return, with a Fokker F2B jet.

Details; Air Nauru, Nauru Government Office, 227 Collins St., Melbourne.

Japan - Tahiti - Peru

Air-France, with 7075, operates twice weekly Tokyo-Lima via Papeete, and return.

Australia-Pacific Islands

(For other schedules touching these islands ;ee also trans-Pacific services).

Melbourne - Noumea - Honiara

Nauru ■ Tarawa And Majuro

Air Nauru operates a twice-weekly service Me Ibourne-Brisbane-Noumea-Hon,, a * 2 return, using a Fokker F2B let Extra services are operated twice weekly to Maiuro ana fortnightly to Tarawa and return. t 0 Details: Air Nauru, Nauru Government Office, 227 Collins St., Melbourne.

Sydney - Fiji

Air-lndia, with 7075, operates weekly Sydney to Nadi and return.

Brisbane ■ Honiara

Air Pacific, with BACI-ll operates weekly Honiara to Brisbane and return.

Sydney - Lord Howe Is.

Airlines of NSW, with flying-boats, operates three times weekly return services from Rose Bay, Sydney, to Lord Howe.

Sydney - New Caledonia

Qantas and UTA operate Sydney to Noumea four times weekly and return.

Australia - New Zealand

BOAC, with VClOs, operates weekly Sydney to Auckland and return.

Sydney - Norfolk Is.

Qantas, with DC4s, operates three times weekly. More in holiday periods.

Australia - Png

TAA and Ansett, with 727 s or DC9s, operate 7 times a week from Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne to Pt. Moresby.

Mon., TAA DC9 T Jet service operates Towns ville via Cairns, for Port Moresby, returning on Tue., via Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Bris bane to Sydney. Tue., TAA DC9 Port Moresby to Honiara direct and returning same day. On Thurs., TAA Fokkers fly Townsville, Cairns, Port Moresby and return same day to Brisbane.

Ansett, with a DC9 and Fokker, operates Cairns - Port Moresby - Cairns - Townsville twice weekly.

TAA has Fokker, DCS and Twin Otter air craft available for charter.

New Zealand-Pacific Is.

(See also trans-Pacific services).

Nz - Am. Samoa

PanAm, with 7075, operates from Auckland to Pago Pago and return twice weekly.

Nz - Fiji

Air-NZ operates a daily service to Nadi and return.

Nz - Fiji ■ Am. Samoa

Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates to Pago Pago via Nadi and return twice weekly.

Nz - Tahiti

UTA, with DC.B-62, operates from Auckland and return twice weekly.

Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates twice weekly from Auckland and return.

Nz - New Caledonia

UTA operates weekly from Auckland on Sat. and returns on Sat.

Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates from Auckland- Noumea on Thursday and returns the same day.

Nz • Norfolk Is.

Air-NZ, with chartered DC4 operates to Nor folk Is. every Sunday. A Qantas service returns every Saturday.

Auckland - Sydney - Singapore

Air-NZ leaves Auckland via Sydney for Singapore twice weekly and returns same days.

Auckland - Sydney - Hong Kong

Air-NZ operates to Hong Kong from Auckland via Sydney twice weekly. Return service operates same day via Brisbane.

Nadi - Rarotonga

Air-NZ, with chartered HS74B, operates from Nadi to Rarotonga every Sunday, and returns same day.

Inter - Territory Services

Tahiti - Easter Is. - Chile

LAN-Chile, with 7075, operates weekly from Santiago to Papeete. Stopover Easter Is. each way.

Fiji - Geic

Air Pacific, with 7485, operates from Suva to Tarawa via Nadi and Funafuti on Wednesdays and alternate Sundays and returns to Suva via Funafuti and Nadi on Thursdays and alternate Mondays.

Geic • Nauru

Air Pacific and Air Nauru each operate fort nightly between Nauru and Tarawa.

Nauru - Marshall Is.

Air Nauru makes a twice-weekly fliaht Nauru- Majuro and return with a Fokker F2B jet.

Details: Air Nauru, 227 Collins St., Mel bourne.

Fiji - Western Samoa

Air Pacific, with BAC 1-1 Is, operates one service a week from Suva to Apia, returning the same day. This flight crosses the Inter national dateline.

Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates three services a week.

Papua New Guinea - Singapore

Qantas, using 7075, operates weekly from Port Moresby to Singapore via Darwin and return.

Western Samoa - Tonga

Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates three services weekly from Apia to Tonga.

FIJI - N. HEBRIDES - BSIP -

P. Moresby - Brisbane

Air Pacific, with BAC 1-lls, operates from Suva on Sun., Wed. and Fri., via Nadi to Vila and Honiara, the Sunday service extending to Port Moresby, returning Mon., and the Friday service extending to Brisbane, with return Saturday. Flights depart Honiara on Mon., Wed. and Sat. for Suva,

Fiji - Tonga

Air Pacific with 748 s operates from Suva to Nukualofa five times a week.

Fiji - Wallis/Futuna

Fiji Air Services operates charter services to Wallis and Futuna Is.

Details: Fiji Air Services. P.O. Box 1259 Suva (22-666).

FIJI - W. SAMOA - COOK IS.

Polynesian Airlines (chartered by Air-NZ) with HS74Bs, operates weekly from Nadi o Rarotonga, via Apia (technical stop), return ng via Aitutaki and Apia. These flights cross he international dateline.

Hawaii - Am. Samoa - Tahiti

PanAm, with 7075, operates from Honolulu o Pago Pago five times weekly; to Tahiti lirect twice weekly. PanAm, with 707 s iperates to San Francisco from Papeete via lonolulu twice weekly; to San Francisco via ’ago Pago and Honolulu twice weekly. Papeete lights operate from San Francisco via Honolulu md Pago Pago twice weekly and to Papeete rom San Francisco via Los Angeles four times weekly.

Hawaii - Micronesia - Okinawa

Continental-Air Micronesia with 727 s operates

rom Honolulu three times weekly via Midway fuel stop only), Kwajalein, Majuro, Ponape, ruk, Guam and Saipan; weekly to Okinawa rom Guam and Saipan.

New Caledonia - Fiji

UTA operates out of Noumea to Nadi and eturn twice weekly.

New Caledonia - New Hebrides

UTA, with Caravelles, operates five return ervices a week, out of Noumea to Vila.

NEW CAL. - WALLIS IS. - NEW CAL.

UTA, with Caravelles, operates on the first, econd and third Tues. of each month from loumea.

New Guinea - Irian/Jaya

TAA operates [TC3s Madang to Jayapura and eturn alt. Tues.

Merpati DC3 Jayapura-Lae alternate Tues ays, returning Lae-Jayapura Wednesdays.

Png - Solomons

Air Pacific, with BAC 1-11, operates Sundays omara to Port Moresby and Mondays Port loresby to Honiara.

TAA operates DCg and DC3 aircraft three imes weekly. Tuesday aircraft leaves Port loresby for Honiara returning same day for ort Moresby and continues to Cairns, Towns ille, Mackay, Brisbane and Sydney. Twice eekly aircraft leave Rabaul for Honiara via uka, Kieta, Munda and Yandina, returninq mowing days.

TAA Fokker Friendship leaves Port Moresby irect for Kieta four times weekly and returns ia Rabaul, Lae, Buka.

Tahiti - Us

UTA, with DC 10, operates from Papeete four mes weekly.

PanAm with 7075, operates regular return srvices to San Francisco, via Los Angeles; » San Francisco, via Honolulu; and to San 'ancisco, via Pago Pago and Honolulu.

W. Samoa - Am. Samoa

Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates between Apia and Pago Pago twenty times weekly.

Tonga - Niue - W. Samoa

Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates weekly service from Tonga to Apia via Niue.

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-lls and Herons operates regular services to Labasa, Taveuni, Nadi, Suva and Savusavu.

Fiji Air Services, with Britten-Norman Islander and Beechcraft Baron aircraft, operates services to Castaway and Plantation village resorts. The Fijian hotel, Korolevu Beach hotel, Flagship Beachcomber hotel, Levuka, Lakeba, Vatukola. Charter flights operate to anywhere in the Pacific.

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, Marquesas, Maupiti and Tubuai, Austral Islands.

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.