Air Tahiti Nui’s 787-9 Deamliners will fly the brand-new path in between Seattle as well as Papeete Air Tahiti Nui released solution to Seattle on October 5, 2022, using twice-weekly straight solution to Papeete on Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners.” North America is a vital market for our location. When we determined to open up a 2nd entrance on the West Coast, Seattle was an all-natural response for us, “stated Air Tahiti Nui Managing Director Mathieu Bechonnet.” I want to thank our companions at Alaska Airlines as well as the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for their cozy welcome and also assistance in making this occur.” The inaugural trip was welcomed with a standard water-cannon salute from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Fire Department. The airplane can be seen passing underneath SEA’s recently-opened pedestrian skybridge connecting the S Gates to the brand-new global arrivals hall.
The airline company and also flight terminal held a gala-like arrivals event full with the requisite speeches, present exchange, and also standard professional dancers.
Dancers carried out to standard Tahitian songs The 4,785-mile trip’s set up period is 8 hrs as well as forty-seven mins, which takes a little bit much less time than the 4,800-mile trip from Seattle to London.“We’re enjoyed invite Air Tahiti Nui as the most recent worldwide airline company to introduce solution to SEA,”claimed Port of Seattle Commissioner Toshiko Hasegawa(at platform;
SEA Airport Managing Director Lance Lyttle is to the left )Seattle is the airline company’s 2nd North American location; its very first was Los Angeles. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the airline company discontinued procedures at LAX and also flew its Papeete-Paris (CDG) course using either Vancouver International Airport (YVR) or Pointe-à-Pitre (PTP), and also returned to the typical directing in May, 2021.
Air Tahiti Nui CEO Michel Monvoisin provided a design of a Tahitian outrigger canoe, repainted in
Air Tahiti Nui shades, to Lyttle and also Hasegawa Air Tahiti Nui was started in 1996, initially flying Airbus A340-200s and also -300 s, with the last of those airplane having actually been retired in 2019 for the airline company’s existing fleet of 4 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. Existing courses from their Papeete center are to Paris (through Los Angeles), Tokyo, Auckland, Los Angeles, and also currently Seattle.
The outgoing trip likewise got a water-turret salute as it taxied cab for separation The airplane made use of forthe inaugural, F-OMA, was called Fakarava, after a Tahitian atoll. Air Tahiti Nui’s PPT-SEA trip timetable– Image: SEA A codeshare contract in between Air Tahiti Nui and also Alaska Airlines permits travelers to take a trip using SEA to and also from practically 100 cities throughout North America. We intend to obtain the possibility to fly the course in the future. F-OMUA on its launch roll from SEA-PPT EDITOR-AT-LARGE/ LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER-SEATTLE, WA Francis Zera is a Seattle-based building, airborne, air travel, as well as industrial professional photographer, a freelance photographer, and also a validated AvGeek. http://www.zeraphoto.com
