{"id":383407,"date":"2026-03-09T11:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-tahiti-nui-sydney-relaunch\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:30:17","slug":"back-after-17-years-this-tiny-airline-will-launch-new-boeing-787-flights-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=383407","title":{"rendered":"Back After 17 Years: This Tiny Airline Will Launch New Boeing 787 Flights To Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Tahiti Nui has announced its plans to restart its flights to Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD) in Australia after an operational hiatus that has lasted some 17 years. Using<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> 787-9 Dreamliner widebody twinjet aircraft, the carrier will fly to Sydney twice a week from its main hub in Papeete (PPT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier&#8217;s previous Australian flights used the Airbus A340.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10338,396,273,995,1053],"tags":[2139],"class_list":["post-383407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-tahiti-nui","category-aircraft","category-australia","category-boeing-787","category-sydney-kingsford-smith-airport","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383408,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383407\/revisions\/383408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}