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Dec. charters bring in over 4K passengers
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Posted on Jan 05 2006
Charter flights by various air carriers brought in 4,320 passengers from China and Japan last month, according to airport ground handler POI Aviation.
POI Aviation provided ground-handling services to charter flights by Japan Airlines, Omni Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, and China Southern Airlines, and some private aircraft.
Among the charter services, China Eastern Airlines brought to Saipan the most number of passengers, which totaled 1,890 in December. Nine Airbus 300-600 flights from Shanghai came to Saipan last month.
China Southern Airlines brought in 1,187 passengers from Guangzhou last month via nine Boeing 757-200 aircraft.
POI Aviation operations manager Leo T. Duenas said ground-handling operations for the company were challenging in December. “December was tough with all the charters and extra flights,” Duenas said.
POI Aviation also provides ground-handling services to Asiana Airlines and Northwest Airlines’ regular flights from Seoul, Korea and Japan, respectively, besides the charters.
Also in December, JAL brought in 716 passengers from three Japanese cities—Osaka, Niigata and Nagoya. Omni Airlines’ two charter flights to Saipan in late December carried 448 passengers from Japan.
Omni Airlines has a total of eight charter flights from four Japanese cities—Osaka, Haneda, Fukuoka, and Kumamoto—from Dec. 30, 2005 until today.
POI Aviation’s Duenas also disclosed that there were 79 passengers from private aircraft that arrived on Saipan in December.
