<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Airbus330:
Would there ever be a market for a stop in Papaete, Tahiti? Lots of California-Australia/NZ flights used to stop there - QF, AF, UT, NZ.</font>
Well, it'll probably be a vacation destination more suited to a leisure carrier (perfect one for 2T - did they serve PPT?) UT and subsequently AF served it for colonial legacy reasons. I would guess QF and NZ used it partially for fuel stop reasons in the past. QF currently doesn't serve a wide swarth of the S.W. quadrant of the Pacific outside its territory, New Zealand proper and HNL and prefers to codeshare on FJ among others.