{"id":55829,"date":"2001-01-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96aded0e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-01-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-26T00:00:00","slug":"96aded1f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96aded1f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuvalu to buy majority share of Air Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUVA, Fiji Islands (PIR) &#8212; Tuvalu has signed a commitment to buy a majority shareholding in Fiji&#8217;s main domestic airline, Air Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Pacific News Agency reports that the deal was put on hold following the death last month of Tuvalu Prime Minister Ionatana Ionatana.<\/p>\n<p>Tuvalu&#8217;s acting high commissioner in Fiji, Fakavai Tamea, said Tuvalu is interested in Air Fiji since it is his country&#8217;s sole air link to the world.<\/p>\n<p>The airline currently offers Fiji-Tuvalu-Fiji flights twice a week.<br \/>\nThe diplomat said with a caretaker government currently running Tuvalu, a &#8221;big decision&#8221; like the purchase of Air Fiji shares has to be left for the new government to make.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tamea added that if the buy-out goes through, the Tuvalu government does not intend to transfer Air Fiji operations to Tuvalu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuvalu has signed a commitment to buy a majority shareholding in Fiji&#8217;s main domestic airline, Air Fiji.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}