Copied and pasted from a Kiribati news group about the recent landing at Gold Coast
"YBCG is an airport in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
The aircraft was seen touching down within the last hour according to Queensland Planespotters.
The Embraer aircraft belongs to Air Kiribati Ltd, a company owned and run by the Government of Kiribati.
Delivered in the last quarter of 2019, it has been “looked after” by an aviation company in Australia and to date has not undertaken any commercial flights as was the intention - to provide a solution to Kiribati’s international travel needs, to connect the country with the outside world for its tourism and, last but not the least to rake in revenue for the country.
Kiribati President Taneti Maamau told media reporters earlier this year that the Embraer aircraft is draining $200K from public funds every month just for the aircraft to be maintained.
Despite queries raised by the public and in parliament, the Government of Kiribati has not responded to the peoples’ concerns about the aircraft particularly on how the Taneti administration plan to revive the multimillion dollar project."