Solomon Airlines has added a 36 seater Dash8 aircraft to its fleet from 7th December 2009.
The new aircraft will be leased for a minimum of two years from Airlines PNG., The aircraft will be used on domestic routes and will give extra onward capacity to meet the demand created by the Airbus A320 service between Brisbane and Honiara. The airline spokesman said that the new schedule, now ready to be implemented from the 7th December, will be circulated next week and be available for bookings and will see an operation of daily and twice daily flights to the west followed by 3 to 4 flights weekly to Auki and twice weekly to Kirkira and Santa Cruz from Honiara.