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Debrief

add additional flights to its Auckland-
Tokyo Narita schedule.
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Still on Air New Zealand, the
airline has also dropped its seasonal
Auckland-Ho Chi Minh City nonstop
flight, which is not returning in
2019 due to what it described as
inconsistent customer demand.
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Air Niugini has confirmed one
fatality from flight PX73 that landed
in a lagoon short of the runway at
Chuuk Airport in the Federated
States of Micronesia. While the initial
statements from the airline on the
day of the September 28 incident
involving the Boeing 737-800 P2-
PXE indicated all 35 passengers and
12 crew had been rescued, reports
later emerged that one passenger
was unaccounted for. Air Niugini
chief executive Tahawar Durrani
said in a statement on the airline’s the surrounding area in the Chuuk busiest domestic route in the world, Cathay Pacific has donated
Facebook page on October 2 that Lagoon,” Durrani said. “We express according to figures published by 777-200 WA001 to the Pima Air
rescue teams had located the body our deepest sympathy to his family.” aviation events organiser Routes and and Space Museum. cathay pacific
of the missing passenger. “It is with – calculated by the OAG Schedules
deep sadness I confirm that the body Some 9,090,941 passengers flew Analyser. The Seoul Gimpo-Jeju
of a male passenger was discovered between Australia’s two most route in South Korea, which has an
by divers today as they conducted populous cities of Melbourne and average of 180 scheduled flights per
a further search of P2-PXE and Sydney in 2017, making it the second day, claimed top spot with 13,460,306

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