Solomon Airlines

You were also saying a couple of other announcements in the Pacific Air industry.

Those listening in will remember our talanoa a few weeks ago with Matthew Finlay, the chief executive of Solomon Airlines.

And one of the announcements that's kind of come out this week is that Solomon Airlines itself will be, as part of its new strategy that Matt outlined, will actually be selling off its two international jets.

Or, you know, ending the leases on those and no longer operating them.

I think it really goes back to that sort of strategic conversation that Matt's been having and that he outlined on the show where thinking about just that, I guess, inherent tension between operating as an international airline, which is, you know, there's a lot of profitability that comes in from the international flights, but also a big cost factor.

... getting together and talking about opportunities to grow the bilateral, um, you know, the two-way trade between both of those significant economies.

And, you know, listeners to the show will remember the conversation that we had a couple of weeks back with Matthew Finlay, who's the CEO of Solomon Airlines, talking about the significance of Papua New Guinea as a, um, an air connectivity route, as a gateway, uh, to Asia-

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... as a gateway to the North Pacific for his airline.