Solomon Airlines, Air Nuigini and Air Vanuatu to Codeshare

Solomon Airlines, Air Nuigini and Air Vanuatu are exploring ways of working in unison to assist and promote better understanding, partnership and generally promote the ideals of the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

The Melanesian Spearhead Group is an intergovernmental organisation, composed of the four Melanesian states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front of New Caledonia. The group orchestrates preferential trade agreements and supports economic development within its membership.

The three airlines have entered into a tri-partite codeshare arrangement on the Port Moresby/Honiara/Port Villa route.

Expected to commence in June 2015, the codeshare agreement will see Air Vanuatu and Solomon Airlines utilising an Air Niugini Fokker 100 aircraft on the route.

The codeshare will form the basis for further corporation and other similar arrangements promoting aviation collaboration among Melanesian Spearhead Group carriers.