partial resumption of flights to and from Nouméa airport on Wednesday

Three weeks after the start of the riots in New Caledonia, thes commercial flights from and to La Tontouta international airport, in New Caledonia, will gradually resume from Wednesday, the local company Aircalin announced on Tuesday June 4, information confirmed by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI ) from New Caledonia, infrastructure manager. “This partial resumption was able to be implemented in collaboration with the State, the government of New Caledonia and the CCI-NC, and remains conditional on the security of access to La Tontouta international airport. underlines the company in a press release.

“Starting tomorrow, Wednesday June 5, Aircalin will gradually resume part of its long and medium-haul commercial flights”the company said. This “partial recovery” concerns a “lightened flight program which will remain in force until a return to a normal situation”however specifies the airline, evoking the “constraints linked to traffic on RT1 and the time range of the curfew in force”.

The first flights affected by the resumption of traffic on Wednesday are a flight from Papeete via Nandi, in Fiji, and a flight to Brisbane in Australia in the evening. “Since May 13, Aircalin has had to cancel 185 flights, impacting nearly 20,000 passengers”the company said in its press release.