POLYNESIAN AIR LOOKS TO REOPEN FAGALIÂI AIRPORT

Airport near Apia has been closed since 2005
By Alan Ah Mu
APIA, Samoa (Samoa Observer, May 12, 2009)ÂPolynesian Airlines aims to reopen FagaliÂi airport on June 29.
"Hopefully we can achieve that," Chief Executive Officer, Taua LiÂaliÂalefao Fatu Tielu, said yesterday. The target date is the start of the new financial year, Taua said. He hopes too the re-opening of the airport, which was closed in 2005, will lessen the negative impact of the closure in American Samoa of the Samoa Packing cannery.
"IÂm sure itÂll have an impact," Taua said of the closure, although he is unsure how big that will be.
Most of the cannery workers in American Samoa are from here.
They fly home for holidays like White Sunday and Christmas three or four times a year, Taua said.
Polynesian Airlines owns FagaliÂi Airport.
None of their rivals on the inter-Samoa route have applied to use the airport, Taua said.
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