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TAI
The Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux airline (TAI – Intercontinental Air Transports), by withdrawing from Africa gained a foothold in Asia and the Pacifc according to the world-partition agreement signed with Air France. In 1956, it was already operating the extension of the Paris-Saigon route to Nouméa.
After a reconnaissance fight from Nouméa to Bora Bora in 1957, TAI operated its frst long-haul scheduled Paris-Tahiti fight on 02 October 1958.
The stamp shows the Douglas DC6B which landed
50 years ago after its last Nouméa-Bora sector.
In fact, in Tahiti, the huge works for the international airport had just started, and the first portion would only be open two years later.
Until then, travellers who had landed in Bora, could fy to the roadsteads of Papeete on the amphibian seaplane of the frst and newly set-up private airline Air Tahiti.
TAI will directly serve Tahiti on 16 October 1960 with their DC7C, which then continued its route to Hawaii and Los Angeles.
ATN
Surveys regarding this Tahitian international airline, whose creation was desired by President Gaston Flosse, began as early as 1993 under the name Air Tahiti International. In 1996, the project was deemed feasible and was revealed to the public. It actually came true when, on 7 November 1998, the frst Air Tahiti Nui Airbus 340-200 landed at Faa’a airport.
The plane was rented from Airbus Industrie, and was to operate its frst commercial fight to Los Angeles two weeks later. But ATN was authorised to serve Paris only after 7 May 2002.
Today the original A340-200 aircraft will be replaced by several A340-313, and the destinations have grown more numerous and diversifed. J-L SAQUET
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