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[6] [7] In its place, Polynesian Airlines would resume international flights with the new name of "Samoa Airways". [8] The state-owned Samoa Airways partnered with Fiji Airways to assist with international flight operations, [8] and wet-leased a Boeing 737-800 from Italian airline Neos in a deal brokered by Icelandair. [9] International flights ...
The CAB concluded the case in 1969, retaining Northwest and Pan Am's routes to Asia and making the following additional route awards: American Airlines - Australia, Fiji, Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa; Continental Airlines - Guam, Hawaii, Saipan; Northwest Airlines - Hawaii to Asia flights; Trans World Airlines - Hawaii, Japan, Taiwan; Western ...
Faleolo International Airport (IATA: APW, ICAO: NSFA) is an airport located 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of Apia, the capital of Samoa. Until 1984, Faleolo could not accommodate jets larger than a Boeing 737. Services to the United States, Australia, or New Zealand, could only land at Pago Pago International Airport in American Samoa. Since the ...
Polynesian Airlines (now Samoa Airways) Samoa Air; South Pacific Island Airways; Talofa Airways; In 2018, the Samoan Government decided that airport operations would be returned to the Samoa Airports Authority. [11] The airport closed for safety reasons on 31 December 2019 after failing to meet international standards. [12] [13] All flights ...
February 3 Armed with a paring knife and a can of insect repellent they claim is a bomb, 21-year-old Michael Peparo and his girlfriend, 18-year-old Tamsin Fitzgerald, hijack National Airlines Flight 73, a Boeing 727 flying from New York City to Miami, Florida, with 70 people on board, and demand to be flown to Cuba, where they hope to be together and work in the sugar cane fields.
Samoan Airlines, Ltd. was incorporated in Delaware in September 1951. [2] Founder and president Lawrence M. (Larry) Coleman, also known as High Chief Tagomailelagi, [3] was the brother of Peter Tali Coleman (who was originally a vice president of the airline), [4] the first Samoan Governor of American Samoa (whose first term encompassed the period of Samoan Airlines' operation).
A Delta plane flies by the wreckage of Delta Flight 191 the day after the Aug. 2, 1985, crash. JOE GIRON/Star-Telegram There have been 2,751 aircraft crashes with a fatality in Texas in more than ...
In the past, the airport has served flights from Faleolo International Airport on the main island Upolu and Asau Airport at the northwest end of Savai'i, but domestic flights were discontinued before 2000. [4] The airport was refurbished in late 2020, [4] and Samoa Airways resumed domestic flights in September that year. [5]