Samoa Airways receives it's first aircraft

Samoa Airways took delivery of a wet-leased Boeing 737-800 from NEOS (Italy) with which it will commence operations next week from Faleolo to Auckland.

Boeing 737-86N MSN 32733 L/N 1078 F/F 2/12/02
NEOS I-NEOS 2/28/02 - present [Leased Out]
Samoa Airways I-NEOS 11/10/17 - present

Samoa is a full service carrier that will essentially fill the void left by Polynesian Airlines in 2005, when it ended jet services, and instead focused on island hopping with Twin Otters. Samoa is essentially a re-brand of Polynesian, and an effort by the Government to re-establish a higher profile national airline that promotes business and the important tourism industry.