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Air Tahiti Nui |
| The Air Tahiti Nui company was only created in 1996.
The Airline maintains regular flights between Tahiti and Los Angeles and
between Tahiti and some Asian Cities. The airline has at the moment one
Airbus airplane.
The Airline is a Tahitian owned, with the French Polynesia
government holding 10% of the shares. The term "NUI" added to Air Tahiti designates it as Tahiti's «greater»
or long haul airline (Air Tahiti services the domestic network).
Cockpit crews and maintenance crews were all recruited from French
airlines and Training was accomplished or completed with AIRBUS Industry
in Toulouse. France. Aircraft maintenance is backed-up by a comprehensive Air France contract.
Officers and management come mostly from French airlines but also from Los
Angeles, Montreal and Tokyo.
In-flight service was designed and managed by SERVAIR Integrated Services.
the largest French
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About the plane |
Our Airbus A340-200 on
which you will flying is ship # 31 and was put into service by Air France
in November 1993. Its registration was F-GLZD. In September-October 1998,
it went through a major overhaul before being sold back to Airbus and
customized for Air Tahiti Nui.
It is now registered F-OITN. The A340 is part of the A320/A330/A340
generation of state-of-the-art aircraft including the last technology
available, The A340-200 is today's longest range aircraft, particularly
suited for the Pacific transoceanic flights. More than 260 Airbus A340
have been sold around the world making it the most succesful new
generation very long haul aircraft.
Characteristics:
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- Length 195 feet
- Wingspan 198 feet
- Interior width 208 inches
- Max. take-off weight 566,590 lb
- Max. landing weight 399,000 lb Fuel
capacity 36,614 USG
- Typical empty weight 267,000 lb
- Payload 95,000 lb
- Engine: The A340 is powered by four of
the most popular jet engines in existence, that is the CFM56 built by
Generel Electric/SNECMA. This engine powers all second and third
generation B737s, more than half the fleet of the A319/A320/A321
family, the A340 and a few other types.
Which means the engine is flying on more than 2 000 aircraft ( One
take-off every 7 seconds worldwide) and has accumulated more than 100
million flight hours (or some 12 000 years). Over 15 000 such engines
have been ordered by some 240 customers. Our engines are CFM56-5C2F
models with a thrust of 31 200 lb and 965'C EGT (exhaust gas
temperature). The fan diameter is 72 inches, by-pass ratio 6.6. At
take-off each engine swallows 1000 lb of air per second. Each engine
weighs 8 800 lb.
Service & Amenities on board
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The A340 is a twin-aisle wide-body aircraft with
a 208 inch cabin width. This has led to a choice of six-abreast seating in
POERAVA
Club («Pearl» or Business Class) and eight abreast seating in MOANA
Class («Ocean» or Economy Class). This arrangement provides for
twin-seating only. It avoids any triple (except for 18 seats) or
five-abreast arrangements common to other types of aircraft, while giving
seat width equivalent or superior to other types. Three cabins are
available. One 36 seat POERAVA cabin equipped with SICMA
Goldwing twin seats and two MOANA cabins equipped with 136 and 114
SICMA seats. High cabin ceiling and exceptional overhead stowage volume is
provided. If you want to make a phone call during flight,
satellite phones are available : two at the back, one at the front and one
in each POERAVA seat. The crew will help you with instructions. All major
credit cards are accepted. Our video
programs
are shown using the latest Matsushita equipment. Individual
video sets are provided in each POERAVA seat. The environmental sound
suppressing earphones in those seats provide a listening quality
surprisingly superior to the usual earphones.
For more information on
Air Tahiti, go to:
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