{"id":2493,"date":"2009-06-10T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2009-06-10T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T07:45:00","slug":"new-carrier-requests-pacific-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/06\/new-carrier-requests-pacific-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"New carrier requests Pacific capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourairline.com.au\/images\/aircraft.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 392px; height: 201px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourairline.com.au\/images\/aircraft.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>A new 100% Australian-owned airline called Pacific Wings has requested capacity for flights between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier will be headquartered in Melbourne and says it plans to operate &#8220;some of the smaller markets within the range of the Boeing 737 aircraft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s applied for unlimited capacity for &#8220;various routes between Australia and New Zealand&#8221; as well as an allocation between Australia and New Caledonia, and will operate with a wet-leased B737 aircraft from Nauru-based carrier Our Airline.<\/p>\n<p>Our Airline also currently operates flights on behalf of Norfolk Air.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific Wings confirmed that it&#8217;s also applied with the Department of Infrastructure and Transport to be designated as an Australian carrier, and has also submitted an application for an International Airline Licence.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the company&#8217;s structure are currently confidential, with the IASC application signed by non-executive directors Geoff Bowmaker (ceo of Our Airline) and Manish Sundarjee.<\/p>\n<p>More information in tomorrow&#8217;s <strong><em>Travel Daily<\/em><\/strong>.<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\";font-family:arial;font-size:10;\"  ><span style=\";font-family:arial;font-size:10;\"  ><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?ui=2&#038;ik=765dc0289e&#038;view=att&#038;th=121c905e2db812b0&#038;attid=0.1&#038;disp=emb&#038;zw\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" width=\"175\" height=\"71\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new 100% Australian-owned airline called Pacific Wings has requested capacity for flights between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. The carrier will be headquartered in Melbourne and says it plans to operate &#8220;some of the smaller markets within the range of the Boeing 737 aircraft.&#8221; It&#8217;s applied for unlimited capacity for &#8220;various routes between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}