Japan Airlines on Wednesday announced details of its international network expansion from Tokyo-Narita International Airport next year. The expansion includes a double-daily service over the Pacific on its San Francisco route by adding a new nonstop to Narita, and a second flight to Guam “for customers seeking to relax at the popular resort destination,” JAL said in a press release. Reservations and sales for these flights will start on Nov. 6. JAL will also introduce new rou

The A.B. Won Pat Guam International Airport Authority (GIAA) sold $37 million in refunding bonds in New York on Tuesday. The bonds sale result in debt service savings of approximately 2.5 percent, the airport said. In addition, the successful refunding will result in cash flow relief of $18.4 million in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. The debt service savings and cash flow relief achieved with the refunding paves the way for GIAA to move forward with various capital improvement p

The Governor and Lt. Governor’s Transition Committee has adequately accounted for the $691,000 fund raised and $665,000 in expenditures, but the Office of Public Accountability found several instances when it did not follow its standard operating procedure for the fund disbursements. According to the OPA’s report on transition fund, the committee was inconsistent in its disbursement practices. OPA said Transition Committee submitted its report on donations 75 days past the d

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Tony Cárdenas (CA-29), along with Representatives Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS), Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Steve Womack (R-AR), Ed Case (D-HI), and Gregorio Sablan (D-MP) have introduced the Covering Our FAS Allies (COFA) Act, which would reinstate Medicaid eligibility for citizens of the freely associated states (FAS) – the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau. Under the Compacts of Free Association with the FAS

Palikir, Pohnpei—The Federated States of Micronesia and Palau successfully held their first bilateral consultation on Oct. 15-16 in Koror, on their respective extended continental shelf projects. FSM offered cooperation in respect of Palau’s claim of extended continental shelf entitlement on the so-called North Area, also known as Palau-Kyushu Ridge, which is known in FSM as the North of Yap Area. “This latest friendly consultation in Koror is a demonstration of good neighbor

Allows American Samoa fishery to operate American Samoa Department of Marine & Wildlife Resources delivering fuel to Manu'a islands for use by fishing vessels. Photo courtesy of WPRFC Utulei, American Samoa— A recent draft stock assessment by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) indicates that the federally managed bottomfish complex in American Samoa is overfished and experiencing overfishing. It also indicates that the federally managed Guam bottomfish stock complex