Labasa Airport will re-open for flights this Thursday

Labasa Airport will re-open for flights this Thursday

By Iva Danford
Tuesday 04/08/2020
Labasa Airport runway upgrade. [Photo:Fiji Airports]

Labasa Airport will re-open for flights this Thursday after completion of the runway upgrades.

Fiji Airports Chairman, Geoffrey Shaw says this runway upgrade is significant in the sense that Labasa Airport is the main port of entry into Vanua Levu.

He says the Labasa Runway and Apron Upgrade works are part of their previously committed and continuous efforts to improve air connectivity between islands and the mainland.

Shaw says Fiji Airports carried out the $1.7 million project to improve the runway surface and to expand the Labasa Airport apron.

Fiji Airports Board Director, Ratu Wiliame Katonivere says apart from the runway works, the apron is being expanded to almost twice its size and will be able to accommodate three larger aircrafts.

Fiji Airports had closed Labasa Airport for 3 weeks to allow runway upgrade and maintenance works.

The Labasa Apron Upgrade works will continue through till September.

Labasa is the fourth Fiji Airports network of outer island airports to undergo a runway upgrade.

Late last year, Bureta and Lakeba runway upgrades were completed and the Kadavu runway was refurbished in March this year. Fiji Airports has invested a total of $3.2 million towards upgrading its outer island airports over the last 10 months.

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