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Air Kiribati & Solomon Airline Making History
Air Kiribati in partnership with Solomon Airlines has started its new air service linking Tarawa with Honiara and Brisbane and confirms its once a week service. Every Wednesday, Solomon Airline leaves Brisbane and arrives in Tarawa at 7pm at night via Honiara. The air-craft stays overnight and then departs Tarawa for Brisbane the next day Thursday in the morning at 10am. The Airline arrives in Bris-bane in the afternoon at 3:15pm. The cost of this service starts at its lowest of AUD $565 for a return to Honiara and AUD$1150 to Brisbane with a starting allowance of 30 kg of baggage for all economy passengers.
Air Kiribati’s Newest Addition Dash 8… Operating soon
The Dash 8 arrives in Kiribati on the 30th October 2017 and has received its Airworthiness Certificate on the 2nd or 3rd of December 2017. Mr Rochford, Commercial & Operation Manager for Air Kiri-bati has mentioned that Dash 8 is going to undertake its 50-100 hours of ‘proving flights’ for verification since this is the first Dash 8 to fly in Kiribati. He also added that within December, Air Kiribati is expecting its Air Operating Certificate from the Civil Aviation Authority of Kiribati (CAAK). The exact date cannot be confirmed at this time since it’s still with the hands of CAAK. Air Kiribati also have plans and expect that the Dash 8 will be flying in January 2018 to the four cho-sen Gilbert Islands of Abemama, Tab North, Nikunau and Butaritari. It also plans to fly to Majuro and Funafuti in January as well but this will depend on receiving regulatory approvals from the government of both Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands (Rochford, D. 2017).
For more info on Air Kiribati Services, please feel free to click on these links: Website: http://www.airkiribati.com.ki/ , and Face-book page: https://www.facebook.com/airkiribati/
(Source: Te Kaongora October to November 2017)
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