repatrication costs
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The first six-repatriation flights from Honolulu as well as the repatriation flights between the two Samoas cost the American Samoa Government more than $9 million, with the majority of the expenditures on the Hawaii flights, according to data in the Administration’s...

![During his special address to the joint Fono session on Monday, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga also briefed lawmakers on the repatriation program, which he says has brought back to the territory 1,548 local residents between February — first flight — and up to last Friday from Honolulu. [photo: FS] Temporary Senate chamber](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/senate_chamber.jpg?itok=5nhImRRC)