New Caledonia's international airline says if conflict breaks out on the Korean peninsula it will shift its flights to France to a route over the Indian Ocean.
Air Calin planes at Tontouta Airport in New Caledonia Photo: AFP
The public broadcaster said Air Calin's contingency plan is for an immediate stop on its flights to Japan from where Air France provides a codeshare flight to Paris.
It reported that flights would be routed via Sydney and La Reunion in the Indian Ocean, retracing the service once offered by Air Austral.
After North Korea's missile test last month when a rocket flew within 100 kilometres of a French airliner, Air France re-routed its Tokyo-bound flights over Russia's Sakhalin island.
