| harry_mudd11:47 UTC26 Jul 2007 | How does one get from Tonga to Kiribati in an aeroplane?
what about Samoa, or F1j1, or Vanuatu??????
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| amaile02:19 UTC27 Jul 2007 | Hi Harry Mudd,
Are you still job-hunting?
Anyway, from Tonga to Kiribati, you need to fly to Nadi (Fiji), then to Honiara (Solomons), and then to Tarawa (Kiribati). (Air Pacific and Air Nauru)
Tonga-Samoa is once or twice a week direct service by Air NZ and Polynesian Air, I think.
Tonga/Fiji (either Suva or Nadi) is serviced daily by Air Pacific.
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| harry_mudd07:06 UTC27 Jul 2007 | Thanks, amaile. I have two opportunities in Kiribati.
I should be clearer in my OP.
I meant getting from the other nations to Kiribati. Just wondering which is easier/cheaper/safer. I, if I come, will fly into somewhere with Virgin, poke around for a few days, then on to Kiribati.
Although, the information is useful, because I need to know, as well, how to get from Tonga to the other places and back, so a question I was going to ask next week is answered already.
(you mind reader!)
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| taranaki_chick07:48 UTC27 Jul 2007 | You might be better going up to Hawaii and out although I have no idea of any details. Aloha
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| wksamoa09:54 UTC27 Jul 2007 | www.airnauru.com.au has info and a pdf timetable for their weekly Brisbane-Honoira-Nauru-Tarawa connection, effective 5 July, 2007, so hopefully still valid. Well, the timetable is so brief that I can paste it in here:
THURSDAY
ON 342 – BRISBANE – HONIARA – NAURU - TARAWA
DEP BRISBANE 2000
ARR HONIARA 2359
FRIDAY
ON342 continued
DEP HONIARA 0100
ARR NAURU 0345
DEP NAURU 0445
ARR TARAWA 0600
ON351 -- TARAWA – NAURU - HONIARA - BRISBANE
DEP TARAWA 0715
ARR NAURU 0830
DEP NAURU 0930
ARR HONIARA 1015
DEP HONIARA 1115
ARR BRISBANE 1335
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION,
Apparently coming in from Honoira and Nauru is is the only connection to Tarawa from the South.
Good luck!
Werner
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| harry_mudd10:50 UTC27 Jul 2007 | #3, I'm Australian Going out to Hawaii and coming back may not work, but I'll look it up.
#4, thanks. I've had a look at that site and it seems like the best way, although I was hoping to go via Tonga.
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| 5waldos00:45 UTC28 Jul 2007 | oh dear- sounds like last time you asked someone suggested that swimming might work?
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| raro02:39 UTC28 Jul 2007 | I'm surprised there isn't a connection from Fiji to Tuvalu to Kiribati, I thought there was one many years ago.
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| temakin05:27 UTC28 Jul 2007 | There was Raro. Air Marshall Islands did that flight using the semi reliable HS-748 aircraft. Back then Air Nauru did the TRW-NAN sector, Air Marshall Is went via Funafuti and Air Tungaru stayed domestic. Bit different now.
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| bendigo08:04 UTC28 Jul 2007 |
Last time I discussed with a Tuvalu "regular", I think there was a Fijian airline that flew a service Fiji - Funafuti return, but this did not have a Tarawa connection.
Is the "new" Air Nauru any more reliable than our old favourite?
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| temakin14:39 UTC28 Jul 2007 | Not from my experience bendigo. 'Our Airline' will swap their regular passenger flights in a second for charter flights that can take the aircraft anywhere. Bad news if one has planned ahead, arrives in Brisbane and sees the flight bound for TRW etc is delayed 24 hrs. Not bias against Nauru but I've been burned more than once. To my knowledge there is no current flight FUN-TRW anymore.
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| bendigo14:47 UTC28 Jul 2007 | In the old days I had a friend stranded on Nauru for a couple of days while the plane was commandeered to take the wrestling team to an important competition, and he also had an extended stay in the transit lounge while a school group was taken on a couple of quick laps of the country!
I also remember them cancelling all services for a week while I was on Tarawa after a truck backed into the plane on Guam, and they either couldn't be bothered, or couldn't afford, to hire a replacement to service their customers (fortunately they were flying the following week when we were scheduled to leave!).
Rob
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| raro04:50 UTC29 Jul 2007 | As with #11---a friend returning from PNG to the Cooks many yrs ago went on Air Nauru. He got off in Nauru for the scheduled two-hour stopover, and then spent four days there, as the PM and Cabinet took the plane to Japan for the weekend!
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| harry_mudd08:37 UTC29 Jul 2007 | according to a Travel agent I spoke to today, Air Pacific Fly Nadi-Tarawa direct.
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| wksamoa10:46 UTC29 Jul 2007 | The Air Pacific Timetable shows a twice weekly connection Nadi-Tarawa indeed:
NADI TO TARAWA
Tue 1210/1510 FJ231 L 737 0
Thu 0730/1030 FJ231 L 737 0
But when you try to book that online on their website Tarawa is not listed as destination there ... The Timetable shows a connection Nadi-Christmas Island as well, which has been discontinued as far as I heard.
So I am afraid that referring to the published timetable brochure only might not be sufficient. I suggest that the travel agent tries to make a real booking to find out, in case he/she had not done that anyway already.
If it works you could really go to Tonga first, to Nadi from there and off to Tarawa at last.
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