Continental Plans Service Linking Newark with Haiti’s Port-Au-Prince.

United Continental Holdings subsidiary Continental Airlines will begin nonstop flights between its New York-area hub Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and Haiti’s capital Port-Au-Prince on June 9, subject to government approval.

Initially Continental Airlines’ flights will operate three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, but the service will become daily on July 1.

Outbound, the approximately four-hour flight (CO703) will depart Newark at 9:25 a.m., arriving at Port-Au-Prince’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport (PAP, also called Maïs Gâté locally) at 12:15 p.m. local time. The return flight (CO704) will depart PAP at 1:20 p.m., landing at EWR at 6:15 p.m. local time.