Inter-Island Talks
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On Airline Rights
Fiji is to hold talks with Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa and Tonga on exchanges of airline traffic rights.
The talks will decide the frequency and the conditions under which Air Pacific can operate flights to these countries.
They would also fix similar con ditions for services to Fiji by Air Niugini and Polynesian Airlines, in which Western Samoa and Tonga are shareholders.
Until now Air Pacific has had relatively free access to Western Samoa and Tonga because the two countries are its shareholders.
But the Samoans and Tongans an nounced recently that they wanted to build up Polynesian Airlines and another major regional airline which in many instances would compete directly with Air Pacific.