Airways
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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 three times weekly.
SYDNEY - NZ - TAHITI - US Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates from Sydney te 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 Fiji and Honolulu with 74785; 707 s operate three times weekly and return to San Francisco via Honolulu. Additional 707 services Sydney/Nadi lues, and Sat. and return.
British Airways-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, and one direct flight to Honolulu.
Sydney - Us (Via Noumea, 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.
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 Honolulu three times weekly; weekly 707 service on Sun. to San Francisco via Honolulu, MELBOURNE - NZ - HAWAII - US Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates weekly from Melbourne to Los Angeles via Auckland and Honolulu and return.
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 ■ AM. SAMOA - HAWAII American Airlines, with 7075, operates oul of Auckland to Honolulu, via Nadi and return two times weekly. Two flights per week via Pago Pago.
Australia-Far East
Sydney - Png - Far East
Qantas operates a weekly 707 service from Briiiane to Hong Kong and return, and a weekly service from Hong Kong to Port Moresby and return.
Pacific-Far East
Nauru - Micronesia • Japan
Air Nauru operates a weekly service Nauru- Ponape-Guam-Okinawa-Kagoshima and return.
I 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
I (For other schedules touching these islands I see trans-Pacific services).
Melbourne - Noumea - Honiara ■
Nauru - Tarawa And Majuro
Air Nauru operates a twice-weekly service, Velbourne-Brisbane-Noumea-Honiara-Nauru and [ return, using a Fokker F2B jet. Extra services are operated twice weekly to Majuro and [fortnightly to Tarawa and return.
Details: Air Nauru, Nauru Government Office, 1 227 Collins St., Melbourne.
Sydney - Fiji
Air-lndia, with 7075, operates weekly Sydney to Nadi and return.
Fiji - Brisbane
I Air Pacific with BACI-lls operates weekly [from Suva via Nadi, Vila and Honiara to Brisbane on Fridays, returning to Suva on Saturdays via Honiara, Vila and Nadi.
Sydney - Lord Howe Is.
Airlines of NSW, with flying-boats, operates [five times weekly return services from : Rose Bay, Sydney, to Lord Howe.
Sydney - New Caledonia
I Qantas and UTA operate Sydney to Noumea pour times weekly and return.
Australia - New Zealand
British Airways-BOAC, with VClOs, operates weekly Sydney to Auckland and return, and a weekly service Melbourne to Auckland and
peturn.
Sydney - Norfolk Is.
Qantas, with DC4s, operates three times weekly. More in holiday periods.
Australia - Png
I TAA and Ansett, with 727 s each operate 7 times a week from Brisbane, Sydney or .Melbourne to Pt. Moresby.
L On Tues, Thurs, Fri, TAA Fokkers fly [Townsville, Cairns, Port Moresby and return same day to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. [Ansett, with Fokker, operates Cairns, Port Moresby, Cairns, Townsville, Sun, Wed and Bhurs.
New Zealand-Pacific Is.
(See also trans-Pacific services).
Nz - Am. Samoa
PanAm, with 7075, operates from Auckland T 0 Pa 9o Pago and return twice weekly.
Paqo F NZ operates a week| y flight to Pago
Nz ■ Fiji
Air-NZ operates a daily service to Nadi and return.
Nz - Fiji - Am. Samoa
Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates a weekly flight to Pago Pago via Nadi.
NZ ■ FIJI - AM. SAMOA -
Cook Is.-Tahiti
Air-NZ DCS leaves Auckland Tuesdays for Nadi, Pago Pago, Rarotonga, Papeete, returning over same route, arriving Auckland Wednesday.
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 Noumea on Sat. and return on Sun.
Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates from Auckland- Noumea on Thursday and returns the same day.
New Zealand - Cook Is.
Air-NZ DCS leaves Auckland Sundays for Rarotonga, arriving Saturday. Return flight leaves Rarotonga Saturday arrives Auckland Sunday.
Nz - Norfolk Is.
Air-NZ, with chartered DC4 operates to Nor folk Is. every Sunday and Thursday. A Qantas service returns every Saturday and Wednesday.
Auckland - Sydney - Singapore
Air-NZ DCIO 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 operates from Nadi to Rarotonga every Tuesday, and returns same day.
Inter - Territory Services
Tahiti ■ Easter Is. - Chile
LAN-Chile, with 7075, operates from Santiago to Papeete and return. 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 flight 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 daylight 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 1-1 Is, 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 BAC 1-1 Is and 748 s operates from Suva to Nukualofa four times a week.
Saturday service operates via Nadi.
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).
Hawaii - Am. Samoa - Tahiti
PanAm, with 7075, operates from Honolulu to Pago Pago three times weekly; to Tahiti direct twice weekly. PanAm, with 707 s operates to San Francisco from Papeete via Honolulu twice weekly; to San Francisco via Pago Pago and Honolulu weekly. Papeete flights operate from San Francisco via Honolulu and Pago Pago weekly and to Papeete from San Francisco via Los Angeles four times weekly.
Hawaii - Micronesia - Okinawa
Continental-Air Micronesia with 727 s operates from Honolulu three times weekly via Midway (fuel stop only), Kwajalein, Majuro, Ponape, Truk, Guam and Saipan; weekly to Okinawa from Guam and Saipan.
New Caledonia - Fiji
UTA operates out of Noumea to Nadi and return twice weekly.
New Caledonia - New Hebrides
UTA with Caravelles, operates five return services a week, out of Noumea to Vila.
NEW CAL • WALLIS IS. - NEW CAL.
UTA, with Caravelles, operates on the first, second and fourth Tues. of each month from Noumea.
New Guinea . Irian/Java
Air Niugini operates DC3s Madang to Jayapura and return alt. Tues.
Merpati DC3 Jayapura-Lae alternate Tues days, returning Lae-Jayapura Wednesdays.
Png - Solomons
Air Pacific, with BAC 1-11, operates Sundays Honiara to Port Moresby and Mondays Port Moresby to Honiara.
Air Niugini operates to Honiara from Rabaul via Kieta and Munda on Sat., returning Sun. and from Honiara to Port Moresby on Sat. returning Sun. These services are under licence from Qantas.
Tahiti • Us
UTA, with DCIO and DCS operates from Papeete four times weekly.
PanAm with 7075, operates regular return services to San Francisco, via Los Angeles; to San Francisco, via Honolulu; and to San Francisco, via Pago Pago and Honolulu.
W. Samoa - Am. Samoa
Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates between Apia and Pago Pago 22 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 1-1 Is 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, Vatukoula. 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, Twin Otters and Islanders, operates to Bora Bora, Huahine, Moorea, Ranqiroa, 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.
Guam - Us Trust Territory
Continental-Air Micronesia with 727 s and
DC6s operates regular service connecting Hono lulu, Okinawa and Guam with Saipan, Rota, Yap, Palau, Truk, Ponape, Kwajalein and Maiuro. details from Air Micronesia, Saipan.
Air Pacific Inc. (not connected with the Fiji based Air Pacific) with Piper Navajo and a deHavilland Heron, operates regular services linking Guam, Saipan, Tinian, and Rota, and charter services are available to other Trust Territory islands.
Details, Air Pacific Inc., P.O. Box 7689, Tamuning, Guam, 96911, U.S.A.
Lagoon Aviation Inc. with Grumman Wid geons, operates charter services for the Mar shalls district, based on Majuro.
Gilbert And Ellice Islands
Air Pacific, with Herons, operates regular services between Tarawa, Butaritari, North Tabiteuea and Abemama.
Papua New Guinea
Air Niugini, with Fokkers and DC3s, operates a network of services between all major centres in Papua New Guinea. These services connect with Ansett and TAA's 727 Australia-PNG services.
DC3 aircraft are available for charter within
Png.
Aerial Tours operates in Central, Western, Gulf and Sepik districts. Aircraft are based at: Port Moresby, Kerema, Daru, Kiunga, Vanimo, Wewak.
T.A.L. (GV) —Territory Airlines Pty Limited operates scheduled services and charter flights from Goroka, Kundiawa, Madang, Wewak, Vanimo, Mt. Hagen, Mendi to Highlands, Sepik and Coastal areas. Talco Territory Travel Ser vice of Papua New Guinea—Twin Otter Tourist flights throughout Papua New Guinea.
Further details from T.A.L., P.O, Box 108, Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
Macair throughout Papua New Guinea.
Crowley Airways Pty. Ltd. operates through out Papua New Guinea. Details: P.O. Box 34, Lae. Offices also in Rabaul, Kieta, Kavieng, Hoskins, Port Moresby.
Bougainville Air Services operates dally throughout Bougainville. There are six regular services Kieta-Buin. 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 and Trislander operates to Santo, Malekula Norsup and Lamap, Aoba (Walaha and Longana), Pentecost (Lonorore), Erromanga, Tongoa, Aneityum, Tanna, Epi, Sola and Vila. Direct
connections are available to and from Santo for all international flights arriving in Vila.
Details from Air Melanesiae, P.O. Box 72,
Solomon Islands
Solalr, with Beech Barons and Islanders operates to Auki, Avu Avu, Babanakira, Bara koma Bellona Is., Fera Is., Gizo, Honiara, Kira Kira, Marau, Munda, Parasi, Sega, Yandina, Santa Cruz, Mono, Rennell Is., Choiseul Bay, Ballalae and Ring! Cove.
Details from Solomon Islands Airways Ltd., Box 23, Honiara, BSIP.
Tonga
Tonga Tourist and Development Co, with Britten-Norman Islander and Aztec aircraft, operates from Fua'amotu, (airport for Nukualofa) to Vava'u (daily except Sunday) and Eua (twice daily except Sunday). Aircraft available for sightseeing and regional charters.
Details from Tonga Tourist and Development Co, P 0 Box 91, Nukualofa, Tonga.
Cook Islands
Cook Islands Airways Ltd, with a Britten Norman Islander, operates seven flights a week between Rarotonga and Aitutaki. Service will be extended to Atiu, Mangaia and Mitiaro when airstrips are built. • A new airfield for Air Samoa
at Lalomalava, Faasleleaga, Savaii,
was officially opened in December.
Before the opening of the strip, Air Samoa operated mainly between its airfield at Fagalii, near Apia, and the government strip at Asau. Another line, Samoa Aviation has almost com pleted a new airfield at Siutu, Salailua.