Nauru Airlines

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Nauru Air Corporation
Boeing 737-300 of Nauru Airlines
IATA code : ON
ICAO code : RON
Call sign : AIR NAURU
Founding: 1969 (as Air Nauru)
Seat: Yaren , NauruNauruNauru 
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Nauru Airport

Home airport :
Company form: State company
IATA prefix code : 123
Management: Geoff Bowmaker ( CEO )
Fleet size: 5
Aims: international
Website: nauruairlines.com.au

Nauru Airlines (officially Nauru Air Corporation ) is an Australian airline and a Nauru state-owned company . The air traffic that primarily departs from Nauru Airport is marketed via a virtual company of the same name based in Yaren , which makes it the national airline of the island state.

The airline originally started operations in 1970 as Air Nauru and was officially renamed Nauru Air Corporation in July 1996 as a result of a reorganization . Since 1998, the flights have been operated with an Australian Air Operator Certificate , making Brisbane the company's home airport. From September 2006, the company used the Our Airline brand , and since August 2014 its flight operations have been under the Nauru Airlines brand .

history

The first Fokker F28 of Air Nauru in 1973

Air Nauru was founded on September 17, 1969 as a state-owned company to offer flight connections between Nauru and Australia. The foundation was made possible thanks to the new wealth from the phosphate mining on Nauru.

Operations began on February 14, 1970 with a wet lease Dassault Falcon 20 that was used on occasional government flights to Brisbane . A Fokker F28-1000 was adopted as the first commercial aircraft on January 18, 1972 . With this aircraft, the company opened scheduled connections from Nauru via Honiara ( Solomon Islands ), Nouméa ( New Caledonia ) and Brisbane to Melbourne (both Australia) and from Nauru via Ponape ( Micronesia ), Guam ( US territory ) and Okinawa to Kagoshima (both Japan ). She also flew to Tarawa ( Kiribati ) and Majuro ( Marshall Islands ) with the Fokker F28. Air Nauru received a second machine of this type on June 18, 1974.

Air Nauru took delivery of its first Boeing 737-200 on June 25, 1975, and its first Boeing 727-100 on May 31, 1976 . These aircraft replaced the two Fokker F28s until 1977. In the spring of 1978 liner services were offered from Nauru via Guam, Manila ( Philippines ) and Taipei ( Taiwan ) to Hong Kong (British colony). Other destinations at this time were still Melbourne, Nouméa, Honiara, Ponape, Okinawa and Kargoshima as well as new Port Vila ( Vanuatu ) and Apia ( Samoa ). In spring 1979, the company used two Boeing 727-100s and two Boeing 737-200s. A third Boeing 727-100 acquired by Ansett Australia was added to the fleet in May 1980.

The existing route network was expanded until the beginning of 1983 with new connections to Auckland ( New Zealand ), Nadi and Suva (both Fiji ) and to Pago Pago ( American Samoa ), Saipan (US territory), Truk (Micronesia), Nuku'alofa ( Tonga) ) and Singapore expanded. At that time, Air Nauru operated three Boeing 727-100s and three Boeing 737-200s, including a station wagon that could also be used as a cargo aircraft. The fleet at that time had a total capacity of 552 seats, although in 1983 Nauru only had 7855 inhabitants. The loss-making flight operations had to be financed by the state.

Because of the global recession in the 1990s, some connections (including Taipei, Auckland) had to be canceled. After an agreement with the Australian airline Qantas and Air New Zealand , Air Nauru flew only the most profitable connections and in 1993 replaced its entire fleet with two Boeing 737-400s . The new machines were the decisive factor in redesigning the logo.

Towards the end of the 1990s, a plan was drawn up that opened up the surrounding islands. He was supposed to bring in money from US tourists and leased a Douglas DC-8 for charter flights .

Despite the government subsidies , Air Nauru was always in deficit . In the last few years the subsidies have decreased, so that today individual flights are canceled because there is not enough money for kerosene or repairs . The main purpose of Air Nauru was to transport domestic and foreign politicians and representatives to and from Nauru.

On September 4, 2004 Kinza Clodumar was dismissed from the government as chairman of the then Air Nauru. Parliamentarian Fabian Ribauw accused him of embezzlement because he would act as a mediator and thus against the government for the company BACF , which allegedly lent Nauru 23 million US dollars . On May 7, 2005, the CEO , Geoffrey Bowmaker, had to deny rumors that the Nauruan airline would cease operations on May 20.

Air Nauru and the Nauru government owe more than $ 10 million to the Export-Import Bank of the United States and Wells Fargo . Part of the debt should have been paid by the People's Republic of China , as promised in 2002. However, since this never happened, the Nauruan Republic switched sides in the diplomatic dispute between China and Taiwan and recognized Taiwan again.

In December 2005 the American bank finally demanded the return of Air Nauru's only aircraft; in the meantime, flight operations have ceased. Transport Minister Kieren Keke's appeal directly to the US government to get the plane back failed. However, Taiwan has now stepped in to finance a new Boeing 737-300 , which bears the aircraft registration VH-INU . This machine has been in operation since September 2006 and at the same time the brand identity was changed from Air Nauru to Our Airline .

In August 2014, Our Airline was renamed Nauru Airlines .

Destinations

As of December 2018, Nauru Airport is serving the following destinations:

fleet

Current fleet

As of March 2020, the Nauru Airlines fleet consists of five aircraft with an average age of 22.7 years:

Aircraft type number ordered Remarks Seats
Boeing 737-300 4th 130
133
Boeing 737-300F 1 Cargo plane -
total 5 -

Former aircraft types

See also

Web links

Commons : Nauru Airlines  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Australian Government, Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Air Operator Certificate, Nauru Air Corporation / Nauru Airlines (in English), accessed January 17, 2018
  2. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, annual issues 96/97 and 97/98
  3. ↑ a b c Nauru Airlines - Who we are (in English), accessed on January 21, 2018
  4. ^ Australian Government, Federal Register of Legislation, Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998, Air Nauru , accessed January 21, 2018
  5. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, annual editions 2003 to 2012
  6. ^ Aero, issue 192, year 1987
  7. ↑ Rzjets, Fokker F28-1038, C2-RN1 (in English), accessed on January 22, 2018
  8. ^ Air Nauru, flight plan October 1973 (in English), accessed on January 20, 2018
  9. ↑ Rzjets, Fokker F28-1056, C2-RN2 (in English), accessed on January 22, 2018
  10. ↑ Rzjets, Boeing 737-2L7C, C2-RN3 (in English), accessed on January 22, 2018
  11. ↑ Rzjets, Boeing 727-77C, C2-RN4 (in English), accessed on January 22, 2018
  12. ↑ Air Nauru, flight plan February 1978 (in English), accessed January 20, 2018
  13. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 79
  14. ↑ Rzjets, Boeing 727-77C, C2-RN7 (in English), accessed January 22, 2018
  15. ↑ Flight International, April 2, 1983 (in English), accessed January 22, 2018
  16. ↑ a b JP airline-fleets international, Edition 83
  17. ↑ Country Economy, Population Nauru 1984 , accessed January 27, 2018
  18. ↑ Nauru Airlines, route network, December 2018 , accessed December 5, 2018
  19. ^ Nauru Airlines Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved March 12, 2020 .