Tuesday 13 November 2018

Welcome to Brisbane Samoa Airways

Tonight Brisbane welcomes another new airline in the way of Samoa Airways.
Unfortunately due to the late night time arrival and departure Brisbane wont get to see this aircraft in daylight hours. (But I have seen it twice now in Auckland).
Samoa Airways, formerly known as Polynesian Airlines, is the state-owned flag carrier airline of Samoa. The airline was founded in 1959 as "Polynesian Airlines", providing domestic and international flights throughout the South Pacific. International operations were temporarily halted in 2005 and taken over by a new airline Polynesian Blue (later Virgin Samoa), before resuming international flights under the new name of "Samoa Airways" in late 2017. Samoa Airways is wholly owned by the government of Samoa and is based in the capital city of Apia, with its headquarters located in the Samoa National Provident Fund Building on Beach Road and its primary hub at Faleolo International Airport. The airline presently operates short-haul flights within Samoa and American Samoa, as well as long-haul flights to Australia and New Zealand. The airline has a fleet of four aircraft - one Boeing 737-800 and three De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter's.  
OL843 departs Apia at 6:55pm and arrives in Brisbane at 8:50pm the same evening. OL844 is set to depart at 10:50pm, touching down in Apia at 6:45am the next day.

SAMOA AIRWAYS B737-86N I-NEOS (CN 32733)






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