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les aeroports dans les iles / airport informations bora bora l'aeroport de bora bora se trouve sur un ilot (motu mute). air tahiti assure gratuitement le transfert maritime de ses passagers entre l'aeroport et vaitape, le village principal, par «bora bora navette» mais certains hotels effectuent eux-memes le transport de leurs clients et de leurs bagages, depuis le motu de l aeroport jusqu'a l'hotel. pour des raisons operationnelles, il vous faudra proceder a la reconnaissance de vos bagages des votre arrivee a l'aeroport de bora bora, avant votre embarquement a bord des navettes maritimes. des trucks (transport en commun local) et des taxis sont presents a l'arrivee de la navette a vaitape. comptoirs de location de vehicule a 100m du debarcadere. vous quittez bora bora... si vous empruntez «bora bora navettes» pour vous rendre sur le motu de l'aeroport, convocation au quai de vaitape au plus tard 1h15 avant le decollage (horaire de depart de la navette a confirmer sur place aupres de l'agence air tahiti de vaitape). duree de la traversee : 15 minutes environ. si vous vous rendez sur le motu de l'aeroport par vos propres moyens, convocation a l'aeroport 1h avant le decollage. certains hotels procedent au preacheminement des bagages de leurs clients. la responsabilite d air tahiti en matiere de bagages est engagee jusqu a leur delivrance pour l arrivee a bora bora, et a compter de leur enregistrement sur le vol de depart de bora bora. raiatea-taha'a l'aeroport est implante sur l'ile de raiatea a environ 10 minutes en voiture de la ville principale de uturoa. des taxis et des trucks attendent a l'aeroport l'arrivee des avions. comment se rendre a taha'a ? taha a est l ile soeur de raiatea, et n a pas d aeroport. un service de navette maritime opere entre raiatea et taha a deux fois par jour, du lundi au vendredi. les week-ends et jours feries, vous pourrez utiliser un taxi boat payant. bora bora the bora bora airport is located on a «motu» (an islet named «motu mute»). air tahiti operates a free shuttle boat transfer for passengers between the airport and vaitape, the main village, by «bora bora navette» but certain hotels operate their own transfers. you must first collect your luggage as soon as you arrive at the bora bora airport before boarding the shuttle boat. «trucks» (the local means of transportation) and taxis will be available in vaitape. a car rental counter is located about 100 yards away from the boat dock. leaving bora bora... if you wish to take the shuttleboat to the airport, you must board the boat at the vaitape dock at least 1 hour and 15 minutes before the flight s scheduled take-off (please verify the shuttle departure times at the dock with the air tahiti office in vaitape). length of the shuttle crossing: approximately 15 minutes. if you arrive on the airport motu by your own means, check-in begins one hour before the scheduled take-off. some hotels offer an early transfer service for their client s luggage ; the baggage is taken from the client s hotel room and transported to the airport. air tahiti s liability for the luggage begins only upon check-in. raiatea-taha'a the airport is located on the island of raiatea, approximately 10 minutes by car from uturoa, the main city of this island. taxis and trucks will be waiting for you at the airport. how to go to taha'a ? taha'a, the sister island of raiatea, doesn t have an airport. a shuttleboat service operates between raiatea and all of the pontoons of taha'a, 7 days a week including holidays. maupiti the airport is located on an islet, the motu tuanai. a boat transfer to the main village is necessary. you can hire private taxi boats; duration of the crossing: 15 minutes. manihi the manihi airport is located on an islet. the runway and boarding/deplaning area are at a distance from the terminal. air tahiti provides land transfers to passengers between these 2 points. baggage is transferred by truck. attention, there is no shuttle service between the airport islet and the other islets of manihi. if you have not planned your shuttle boat transfer, please contact the air tahiti personnel for more information. leaving manihi manihi pearl beach hotel transfers its clients and their luggage from/to the hotel. air tahiti responsibility ends at the delivery of the luggage at the airport when arriving in manihi and begins upon checking in with air tahiti for the flight leaving manihi. r e v u e d e b o r d n ° 5 6 / a i r ta h i t i / o n - b o a r d m a g a z i n e n ° 5 6 65