Niue looking
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for Fiji link
NIUE has negotiated landing rights
in Fiji although no date has been set for start of services. It will be a freight run as much as a passenger run, to allow Niue to sell to and buy goods from a market other than New Zealand.
Regular flights out of Fiji also would allow tourists to include a few days on the island in their itineraries. Niue Airlines (NA) is promoting a tourism package marketing the island as a place where visitors can fish for game species from the cliff- tops.
The Auckland-based airline began flying to Niue last year with a Solomons Airlines Boeing 737 during the aircraft’s weekly layover in Auckland. Now it has switched to leasing with Air Nauru, which has three 737-200 jets and is planning an upgrade to Boeing 737-400 s.
The government’s Hotel Niue was due to reopen on June 1 after post-cyclone repairs. NA heads a consortium which has just received permission to build a 34-double unit hotel with a kitchen for preparing in-flight meals. The airline hopes the hotel will open by Christmas, but March is a more likely date. □