Fiji Air in hot water over bad cargo

International airline Air Pacific, or Fiji Air as it will be known soon, has been exposed as one of the world’s major carriers of shark fins into Hong Kong. The South China Morning Post has reported that the airlines’ new Airbus A330 aircraft were, according to a group of pilots familiar with its operations “basically a thinly-disguised freighter” carrying shark fins into the territory from the Fijian islands. A coalition of environmental groups claim in a letter to the airline that a “substantial amount” of the shark fins imported into Hong Kong arrive on Air Pacific. Indeed the facts are