28 December 2010
Flights to Buin commence
By Tapo Tovilu DWU Journalism Student

National Aviation Services will begin its flights to Buin tomorrow.

General Manager John Imaka says the flight tomorrow will officially commence the company’s operations in the region.

He says the maiden flight was made during the opening of the 3rd ABG games in which they flew with ABG President John Momis to Buin to open the games.

Mr Imaka told New Dawn FM that they weren’t able to fly after the maiden flight as fuel drums from Rabaul did not yet arrive.

He says however the fuel drums were offloaded from Makaia yesterday and the flight tomorrow will commence as scheduled.

The company is working on bringing one more of its planes in from Vanimo and they are aiming at restoring the provision of air services back into Bougainville.

Comments

[Tesinboi]

So far so good with NAS.
Captain Imaka is a seasoned pilot and a close freind.
Very happy to see him and Marcelin soar the blue skies of bouganville.
Great Bougainvilleans who leave their comfortable POM homes and return to get the venture going..
Keep it up guys..we can only be proud of you...

[Airo kukah]

Great news and how much would the airfares cost? Can Mr Laukai and his team research this and tell us about the fares? Will definetly fly to Buin instead of the 6 hrs ride on the back of those land cruisers.

Cheers and happy niu yia.

[Bubu Meri]

Congratulations to Mr. Imaka, Marceline Ampaoi and Associates for this great initiative. Definitely very good role models for my grand children...

[Meri Buin]

This is great news. I am looking forward to flying home for my next holidays.

[Maria Buka Meri]

This is terrific. Will certainly be taking a flight to Buin to catch up with many of my poro's.