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Air Tahiti opts for ATR HighLine All-Business Class cabin for newly ordered ATR 72-600
Asian Aviation
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June 21, 2025
Air Tahiti, the leading inter-island carrier of French Polynesia, has selected the ATR HighLine All-Business Class cabin interior for one of its four newly ordered ATR 72-600 aircraft. This marks the launch by Air Tahiti of a unique VIP service to...
French Polynesia creates world’s largest MPA
Dive Magazine
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June 18, 2025
Bora Bora, one of French Polynesia’s Society Islands, will be included in the new MPA (Photo: Shutterstock) By DIVE Staff The government of French Polynesia has announced the creation of a marine protected area (MPA) that will extend around the...
Press Release: Air Tahiti opts for ATR HighLine all-business class cabin
Runway Girl - Pennsylvania
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June 19, 2025
Air Tahiti, the leading inter-island carrier of French Polynesia, has selected the ‘ATR HighLine All-Business Class’ cabin interior for one of its four newly ordered ATR 72-600 aircraft. This marks the launch by Air Tahiti of a unique VIP service...
Paris Air Show live: Airbus deals valued at $20.9 billion on final day of trade
AeroTime News
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June 19, 2025
As the Paris Air Show enters its final day of trade before the event transforms into a more public orientated affair, it has been reported that Airbus has notched up an estimated $20.9 billion worth of contracts. According to Reuters, Airbus...
Air Tahiti to operate new ATR72 in ‘HighLine’ all-business class configuration
AeroTime News
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June 19, 2025
At the Paris Air Show 2025, Air Tahiti announced that it intends to operate one of its newly ordered ATR72-600 turboprops in an all-business-class configuration, linking the islands of the French Polynesian archipelago with a new VIP-only service....
French Polynesia Announces World’s Largest Marine Protected Area at UN Ocean Conference
EcoWatch
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June 13, 2025
A school of fish swim over a coral reef in the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia on Feb. 17, 2018. Alexis Rosenfeld / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform...
Air Tahiti launches all-Business Class ATR for premium island hops
Aviation24.be
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June 18, 2025
Air Tahiti has announced it will equip one of its newly ordered ATR 72-600 aircraft with the ATR HighLine All-Business Class cabin, launching a new VIP service connecting French Polynesia’s iconic destinations such as Bora Bora and Raiatea from...
French Polynesia creates world’s largest marine protected area
Mongabay
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June 12, 2025
French Polynesia has announced the creation of the world’s largest marine protected area. Speaking on the first day of the United Nations Ocean Conference in France, French Polynesian President Moetai Brotherson said the MPA will cover the...
Air Tahiti orders all-business class ATR 72-600 for new VIP service
LARA
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June 18, 2025
French Polynesian regional carrier Air Tahiti, has chosen the ‘ATR HighLine All-Business Class’ cabin interior for one of its four newly-ordered ATR 72-600 aircraft. The move, announced at the Paris Air Show, is part of the airline’s VIP service...
French Polynesia unveils world's largest marine protected zo...
Modern Ghana
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French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson on Monday announced that his country is on track to create the world's largest marine protected area (MPA). The ambitious objective, spanning nearly 23 percent of the archipelago's waters, came on the...
French Polynesia Sets Aside 400,000 Square Miles of Ocean for Conservation
The Maritime Executive
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On Monday, French Polynesia announced the creation of one of the world's largest marine protected areas. The French territory has designated an area equal to 23 percent of its exclusive economic zone for conservation, free of industrial fishing -...
‘A chronicle of disaster foretold’: French Polynesia leader warns against deep-sea mining, urges ocean conservation
Malay Mail
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June 13, 2025
NICE (France), June 13 — French Polynesia pledged this week to create the world’s largest marine protected area to safeguard its seas — and it hopes to encourage others to lift their game. The archipelago in the far South Pacific Ocean, an...
French Polynesia Just Created The World’s Largest Marine Protected Area
TIME Magazine
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June 9, 2025
French Polynesia announced the creation of the world’s largest Marine Protected Area (MPA), at the U.N. Ocean Conference in France on Monday. The MPA will cover the entirety of the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), almost 5 million square...
French Polynesia Creates World's Largest Marine Protected Area
AOL
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Corals on the outer slop of the lagoon in Tatakoto, a remote atoll in French Polynesia. Credit - Alexis Rosenfeld—Getty Images French Polynesia announced the creation of the world’s largest Marine Protected Area (MPA), at the U.N. Ocean Conference...
Value oceans, don't plunder them, French Polynesia leader tells AFP
The Daily Sentinel - Colorado
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French Polynesia pledged this week to create the world's largest marine protected area to safeguard its seas -- and it hopes to encourage others to lift their game.The archipelago in the far South Pacific Ocean, an overseas territory of France, is...
‘Everyone’s doing awesome’: Hokulea, Hikianalia make steady progress toward French Polynesia
Hawaii News Now
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June 10, 2025
HILO (HawaiiNewsNow) - Nearly a week since the Hokulea and Hikianalia departed from Hilo, they are making steady progress towards French Polynesia. After six days at sea, the canoes are on course and are approximately halfway to the equator. Crews...
Sub-National Island Jurisdictions Unite to Boost Climate Finance Access and Marine Conservation Efforts
Win Media SKN
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June 14, 2025
by Kevon Browne St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN)—Representatives from Sub-National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs), territories with varying degrees of autonomy linked to larger sovereign states, gathered to spotlight their critical role in global marine...
French SSA company Look Up raises 50 million euros
SpaceNews
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June 13, 2025
WASHINGTON — Look Up, a French space situational awareness company, has raised nearly 50 million euros ($57.6 million) to continue development of a radar network to track space objects. The company, previously known as Look Up Space, said June 11...
SNIJs announce intl. coalition to increase representation, access to climate finance
The Daily Herald
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Press conference at the 3rd UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France, with from left: James Ellsmoor, Chief Executive Officer of Island Innovation; Vannesa Toré, Director of Foreign Economic Cooperation for the Ministry of Economic Development,...
Sub-National Island Jurisdictions Announce Creation of International Coalition to Increase Representation, Access to Climate Finance
Win Media SKN
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June 12, 2025
June 11th, 2025; NICE – Representatives from Sub-National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs) have highlighted the outsized impact their communities are having on global marine conservation efforts, while also suffering from limited representation at...