Alderney Airport other destinations such as Brighton, Bournemouth, Cherbourg, Exeter, Plymouth and Jersey were abandoned over the years due to what Blue Islands for example claimed was 'lack of interest'. These routes had been operated on and off by Aurigny and Blue Islands but also Alderney Air Ferries, Air Sarnia and Air Camelot during the 1970s and 1980s. The number of air routes to the island is at its lowest since the Second World War except for a brief intermission during the 1967-8 period, when another airline (Glos Air, later to be Aurigny Air Services) was found to fill the void (see
Vanilla production in French Polynesia influenced by several factors and has declined from a high of 200 tons to a 2013 yield of 60 tons. The largest concentration of the vanilla variety "Vanilla tahitensis" (Tahitian vanilla) is situated in the Society Islands. The island of Taha'a, known as the "Vanilla Island" because of its pervasive aroma of vanilla, produces about 80% of all French Polynesia's vanilla. "Vanilla tahitensis" (Tahitian vanilla), which is a cross-strain of "Vanilla planifola" (Mexican vanilla and Bourbon vanilla) and "Vanilla odorata" (Inflated Vanilla), is produced in French Polynesia, especially in Tahiti, and also Hawaii. Its pods have fewer seeds than "Vanilla