Air Pacific launches Port Vila route from Suva

• Air Pacific, the airline due to rebrand to Fiji Airways in 2013, expanded its network out of Suva (SUV), Fiji’s capital and the smaller of the two airports located on the main island Viti Levu, on 16 September. The airline now flies once a week to Port Vila (VLI), capital of Vanuatu, with ATR 42 aircraft, competing with Air Vanuatu’s also weekly operations that were only launched in July.