Air Nauru to link four Pacific nations
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Air Nauru to link four Pacific nations
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Air Nauru to link four Pacific nations
June 9, 2004
State-owned Air Nauru is expected to launch a central Pacific air service that will connect four island nations with Australia and Fiji beginning in mid-July, airline officials in the Marshall Islands said.
The service begins on July 12, the 25th anniversary of independence in Kiribati, one of the stops on the route.
Melbourne-based Air Nauru official John Goulding and a team of Air Nauru officials is expected in Majuro later this week to officially announce the plans for the air service to government and business leaders, and to make final arrangements for ticketing and ground handling for the Boeing 737 that will service the route.
Air Nauru will link Brisbane with the Solomon Islands, Nauru, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati and Fiji on a once a week basis.
Air Nauru's effort will mark the first direct Australia air service to Majuro since another airline attempted to run a cargo service in the mid-1990s but halted it after about one year due to lack of outbound cargo.
It will also mark the first regularly scheduled Air Nauru service to Majuro, which it serviced weekly in the hey-day of Air Nauru operations in the late 1970s and early 1980s when the airline operated several jets to multiple destinations in the Pacific and Asia.
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Air Nauru to link four Pacific nations
June 9, 2004
State-owned Air Nauru is expected to launch a central Pacific air service that will connect four island nations with Australia and Fiji beginning in mid-July, airline officials in the Marshall Islands said.
The service begins on July 12, the 25th anniversary of independence in Kiribati, one of the stops on the route.
Melbourne-based Air Nauru official John Goulding and a team of Air Nauru officials is expected in Majuro later this week to officially announce the plans for the air service to government and business leaders, and to make final arrangements for ticketing and ground handling for the Boeing 737 that will service the route.
Air Nauru will link Brisbane with the Solomon Islands, Nauru, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati and Fiji on a once a week basis.
Air Nauru's effort will mark the first direct Australia air service to Majuro since another airline attempted to run a cargo service in the mid-1990s but halted it after about one year due to lack of outbound cargo.
It will also mark the first regularly scheduled Air Nauru service to Majuro, which it serviced weekly in the hey-day of Air Nauru operations in the late 1970s and early 1980s when the airline operated several jets to multiple destinations in the Pacific and Asia.
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in them days
Air Nauru was reported to have had a fleet of 7 Boeings in the air at one time. This was when the total population on the Island was still less than 10k.
The fleet (I seem to recall) was:
two basic 737-200's -RN3 & 6; 53t with low pressure tyres; -RN3 may have been a QC or at least had a main deck cargo door;
two HGW 732's (58+t MTOW) -RN8 & 9;
two ex AN 727-100QC's -RN4 & 7;
on ex DL 721 -RN5 (no cargo door).
All the 737's had JT8-17AR's.
At one time it was reported that they operated 2.5 ASM's per day & that was a lot of seat miles for small airplanes.
ON operated into Majuro twice weekly (INU-TRW-MAJ) and at one time flew on to HNL non-stop with their HGW 737. It had a greater revenue payload & therefore passenger uplift than the CO/M 721's, but without local traffic rights. All passengers originated in Nauru.
They had good connections and a lot of through services and from MAJ one could go to Fiji, Australia or NZ with ease.
Their fares were very competitive.
The fleet (I seem to recall) was:
two basic 737-200's -RN3 & 6; 53t with low pressure tyres; -RN3 may have been a QC or at least had a main deck cargo door;
two HGW 732's (58+t MTOW) -RN8 & 9;
two ex AN 727-100QC's -RN4 & 7;
on ex DL 721 -RN5 (no cargo door).
All the 737's had JT8-17AR's.
At one time it was reported that they operated 2.5 ASM's per day & that was a lot of seat miles for small airplanes.
ON operated into Majuro twice weekly (INU-TRW-MAJ) and at one time flew on to HNL non-stop with their HGW 737. It had a greater revenue payload & therefore passenger uplift than the CO/M 721's, but without local traffic rights. All passengers originated in Nauru.
They had good connections and a lot of through services and from MAJ one could go to Fiji, Australia or NZ with ease.
Their fares were very competitive.
