Airline for Tonga
NZPA Nuku’alofa : Tonga will have its own international airline, the island nation’s Privy Council has decided. The airline would meet mainly domestic require-, ments, but the possibility of a link between Tonga and American Samoa would be investigated, the Government said. The Privy Council will recruit overseas experts to organise the project.- Several aircraft companies have already been in tpuch with the Ministry of Works, recommending the purchase of their planes. The Commission of European Communities has approved a grant of 600,000 European units of account (a bo u t $NZ450,000) to buy new equipment for Tongas Fua’amotu international airport.
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Press, 2 April 1980, Page 24
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