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# are there any direct flights from london to rarotonga? Country forums / Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea
seanpf 23:44 UTC 20 Feb 2007 | as the title says |
raro 09:31 UTC 21 Feb 2007 | Heathrow to LAX, then change planes (after going out of US Immigration and Customs, and back through it again) and from April onwards there are non-stops LAX to RAR. Currently those flights stop in Tahiti for 1.5 hours. | 1
5waldos 12:09 UTC 21 Feb 2007 | Ah...is that really considered a direct flight from London? Raro- you been in the islands tooooo long. | 2
seanpf 15:05 UTC 21 Feb 2007 | yeh i gathered however that those flights are heavily booked at the mo, so is the only other option to go to auckland and back to RAR? | 3
raro 05:48 UTC 22 Feb 2007 | Waldos--- Well, if you'ver been reading SeanPF's Q's, you'll see that he probably meant "How do I get to the Cooks from London?" Sean---Who told you they were heavily booked at the moment? And what moment are you coming? It's pretty ridiculous to fly 13 hours from LAX to AKL, wait a few hours or more at AKL, then fly 4 hours from AKL to RAR, when you can just fly from LAX to RAR in about 9 hours as of April. | 4
5waldos 07:30 UTC 22 Feb 2007 | Haven't been, so I will take your word for it. Just gave me a bit of a laugh. | 5
seanpf 19:21 UTC 22 Feb 2007 | the reason is that The flights from LAX-RAR are on 20th may and 27th may etc AIR NZ fly Rarotonga-Nadi on 1st june so this means i either spend 4 days in the cook islands or 11 days now 11 days appears too much, and 4 days not enough i was aiming for 7 days | 6