The national airline for the tiny Pacific Island nation of Nauru has unveiled its new freighter aircraft at Brisbane Airport and made Australian aviation history.
Although the airline is headquartered on Nauru, the country's flag carrier has been based out of Brisbane Airport for 20 years and is registered under Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority and local aviation standards.
“Nauru Airlines was established to connect Nauru to Australia and the Pacific but it’s a very challenging thing to maintain commercially on its own. A big part is doing work for other operators and airlines out of Brisbane." The country was once one of the world’s wealthiest per capita thanks to phosphorus mining on the island, which briefly enriched Nauru to a point it was nicknamed the"Kuwait of the Pacific" in the 1970s.
Today, after staving off debt and near bankruptcy, Nauru Airlines has become a viable commercial airline by offering passenger, charter and freight services across the central Pacific.
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