Aircalin is the airline of New Caledonia. While they have a fairy small fleet consisting of just about half a dozen planes, they operate a pretty cool route network, with flights to Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and some other nearby islands.
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Air Calin's crews are great and their service is nice even in economy. On the current planes the seats are a little hard, and remind me of Air Tahiti Nui's seats. I went to New Caledonia this year and absolutely loved it.
Why an airline would choose this piece of crap over the A380 baffles me. But it probably is that they don't have money.
Sounds like an awesome little airline with a great product! But I feel they have their times the wrong way around (i.e. they should leave Japan in the evening and arrive in New Caledonia in the morning). Presumably they are attracting a good amount of leisure traffic from Japan. At the very least, they should leave around 1.5hrs earlier from Japan to arrive earlier in the evening and also mitigate any potential delays.
Actually the vast majority of pax on these routes are connecting on AF to CDG hence the times
Aircalin is taking the feed from Air France and KLM in both Narita and Osaka. Took the flight two years ago when they had a promotion between Narita and Noumea for $500ish, and over half of the passengers were connecting passengers from Europe.
New Caledonia is definitely worth a visit. We went there for the first time last year. We travelled with my husband's mother - well that's another story, given she had no valid passport. Air Cailin is good, although we actually travelled on an Air Caribes plane.
We were there for a flop-and-drop and had a magic time at Le Meridien. Next time we go, I want to travel to Ile des Pins, and to more remote parts of the long thin island. We were there a couple of weeks before they were having one of several referenda about separating from France. The island is this little bit of European infrastructure in the middle of the Pacific. France pours a lot of money into it. The only down note is that the society appears very stratified, French in positions of power, and Kanaks not.
Oh, if you want to see a few pics of the hotel, and the coast, and read about my husband's mother's difficulties with passports - here is the link: https://www.2paxfly.com/2018/09/22/three-pictures-new-caledonia-trip/
Hmm interesting way to go to Japan from Australia thats forsure. Never considered it
Those are fairy nice looking aircraft. Oops, I meant fairly. 🙂 I'm a proofreading nerd.