Samoa Signs MOU with Fiji Airways

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Samoa has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Fiji’s national airline, Fiji Airways as it prepares to resume flight service between Samoa and New Zealand and Samoa and Australia.

These routes are now served by Virgin Samoa .

Tuilaepa didn’t give any details about the MOU about said that airfares to New Zealand and Australia are too high.

He  pointed out the two airlines now serving these routes are controlling airfares through partnerships. Air New Zealand and Virgin Samoa are the two airlines he was referring to.

The PM said a commission that studied airline options for Samoa recommended that Polynesian Airlines go into a joint venture with another airline to provide flights to the two destinations, at an affordable price.

According to Tuilaepa, Samoa has now signed an MOU with Fiji Airways where Samoas national airline will work with Fiji to operate flights and not compete on routes.

The name of Samoa’s airline will be Samoa Airways.

Explaining the change from Polynesian Airlines, Tuilaepa said the country’s airline should bear the name of Samoa so that people know this airline belongs to Samoa.

He said the reason why Polynesian was used was because the airline was intended to fly to different Polynesian islands at a time when there were few airlines in the region,

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