CNMI airline cancels flights to Guam

10:23 am on 18 March 2015

Flights from Tinian to Guam have been cancelled indefinitely, as Star Marianas Airlines reels from new ground-handling terms in Guam.

All passenger charters to Guam were suspended last week as the local inter-island carrier blamed the Guam International Airport Authority's new terms that the small airline says are impossible to comply with.

The airline says one aspect of the new agreement is an almost 100 percent hike in the cost of escorting passengers on the ground.

The Tumon tourist district in Hagatna, the capital of Guam, the US territory in the western Pacific.

The Tumon tourist district in Hagatna, the capital of Guam. Photo: AFP