FLY CORALway: Intriguing South Pacific Airline Startup

Nothing about the validity, but the name sounds like it was formed by committee. Should we call it Coralway, or Fly Coral? Let's just do all of it. LOL

Rather like United island hopper from
Honolulu to Guam. It makes sense for connectivity and cargo. However you can’t sell tickets without aircraft , crew , licenses etc but sadly people are gullible enough

Strange choice of routes - it's all inter-island flights with no service to larger international hubs in Australia or New Zealand.

People on Wallis Island would probably welcome some competition for AirCalin which is currently the only airline that serves WLS-NOU and WLS-NAN. It would be great to have flights connecting Fiji and Tahiti as well as Samoa and Tahiti. Currently you have to fly via Auckland.

Is the airline complete BS? Probably. Does that render of a CS100 in the Fly Coralway livery excite me? Certainly.

@Icarus Precisely what I thought! UA154 was one of the most memorable flights I've ever taken. The fact that I sat next to UA legend Sherman Thompson the whole way put it over the top.
I am very intrigued by the possibilities here.

My understanding it is a project of the Wallis Goverment.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/416356/wallis-plans-to-launch-new-airline-next-year

I would LOVE to see this venture become a reality! We are taking a repositioning cruise form the SJO area to PPT in September. We hoped to travel back to the States from NAN to SFO/DFW but I am not finding flights form PPT to NAN which make any sense (like less than 27 hrs and a ton of money).

Best of luck to these guys!!!

Thanks for rekindling an old memory, Ben. A very long time ago, UTA (Union de Transports Aériens) used to fly Fokker Friendships and Boeing 737 out of La Tontouta Airport, New Caledonia . They were used on local Pacific services. UTA's then subsidiary company Air Polynésie,based at Faa'a International Airport, Tahiti, had a fleet of three Fairchild F-27A Friendships, one Britten-Norman Islander, one de Havilland Canada Twin Otter series 200, and one de Havilland Twin Otter series 300 for local Pacific services. There used to be a mileage airfare where you could fly up from Australia to Nouméa, then to what used to be the British/French Condominium of New Hebrides, and on to Nadi, then return a different way through Tonga and New Zealand.

I imagine a new airline would depend on fairly hefty subsidies from the French government as a means of support for the DOM/TOMs.

AirNZ abandoned the Coral route(AKL-NAN-RAR-PPT-LAX) in the late Aughts/early teens for a reason. Not even heavy Raro subsidies could save it and I’m not sure the French government is going to throw money behind this enterprise just because it’s a pseudo French airbus product (CSeries/A220) and New Caledonia and Wallis which are becoming further independent from France in the next few years

Take a closer look at the destination map, then count the numerous spelling errors. It's almost as if they're subtly mocking potential customers: if you're so dumb you can't pick up our blatant spelling errors, then you deserve to lose your money.

This sounds like a really great airline that serves a good purpose. But as you said it's shady and shouldn't be taken seriously which is a real shame. A concept as good as this should not be wasted by some scammers looking to make a cheap buck out of some gullibal tourists. Still I hope this is a real plan and will eventually yield results as it is an incredible concept.