AMI ramps up outer island flights

An Air Marshall Islands plane parked next to the airport terminal on Lae Atoll. Photo: Tyler Milne.
An Air Marshall Islands plane parked next to the airport terminal on Lae Atoll. Photo: Tyler Milne.

The regularity of Air Marshall Islands flights to the outer islands has dramatically improved over the past two years.

The improvements show in airline and airport statistics. In the second quarter of FY2018 (January-March), 1,819 domestic passenger arrivals were counted at Amata Kabua International Airport in Majuro.

This is nearly 50 percent above the number of arrivals, 1,230, in the second quarter of FY2016. Meantime, AMI’s revenue passenger miles leaped from 495,000 in the January-March 2016 quarter to 1,068,000 in January-March 2018 — over double.

These statistics were reported by the RMI Economic Policy, Planning and Statistics Office.

Read more about this in the August 17, 2018 edition of the Marshall Islands Journal.