New South Pacific Flights

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31211, 8 November 1966, Page 3

New South Pacific Flights

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright)

LONDON, Nov. 7.

8.0.A.C. will start services across the South Pacific on April 1 next year, providing a 33-hour link between London and Sydnev.

These Boeing 707 services, which will call at New York. San Francisco, Honolulu and Fiji, start on the day the new cheap Pacific promotional fares are due to be introduced. The new services will operate three times a week in each direction. Qantas, the Australian air-

line, will have four flights each week on this route. Between them the two Commonwealth airlines will provide a daily service. Flights by both airlines will leave London and Sydney at the same time on separate days and will have the same flight number. 8.0.A.C. and Qantas already

> i operate frequent services be•ltween Britain and Australia • across Asia. i Air New Zealand has two flights a week between SydI ney, Auckland. Honolulu and Los Angeles. There are other Qantas seri vices within the area, including Sydney to Mexico. The three airlines will, by

next April, have 16 South Pacific flights a week in each direction and 8.0.A.C. and Qantas will have between them a daily service from Lon[don and San Francisco. The new South Pacific fares, subject to Government approval, will offer 20-day excusion fares between Australasia and North America at rates 25 per cent below existing economy class fares. The excursion fare from San Francisco or Los Angeles Ito Sydney, for example, will be £270 return, compared with £360 for an economy return. There will also be new fares on which travel agents can base cheaper package holidays for Americans touring the South Pacific.