Three carriers ink Pacific code share deal

BTN News

Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Effective 01 July 2016, Solomon Airlines, Air Niugini and Air Vanuatu will commence a code share service linking all three of their home destinations.

The new service will operate from Port Moresby to Honiara on Fridays, Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Ex-Honiara the code share service will operate from Honiara to Port Moresby on Saturdays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

The code share also extends to a weekly Honiara-Port Vila-Honiara service into Bauerfield International Airport, Port Vila, operating ex-Honiara on Tuesdays and returning to Honiara on Wednesdays.

Meanwhile, Solomon Islands visitation has continued on in positive mode with figures recorded for April 2016 showing a 2.8 per cent increase.

Official Solomon Islands government statistics released this week show a total of 1799 international visitors arrived across the month compared to the 1750 recorded for the same period in 2015.

Australian numbers again dominated, the 763 figure recorded representing a 1.1 per cent increase on 2015 and claiming 43.5 per cent of all visitation.

Asian numbers showed the strongest growth, the 278 figure recorded for the month indicating a 30.5 per cent increase over the 213 figure recorded in April 2015.