Nauru International Airport - International Airlines

International Airlines

Nauru International Airport serves as the main hub of the national carrier, Our Airline, formerly known as Air Nauru. Flights by the above named carrier originate in Brisbane, Australia, continue through Honiara (the capital of the Solomon Islands), and finally onto Nauru.

In 2005, the only Boeing 737-400 of the near-bankrupt airline Air Nauru was seized by an American billionaire in court for failing to pay the last payment of $20,000 on time in Melbourne, Australia. This briefly left the island without any air service until the company chartered a Fokker 100 from Alliance Airlines of Brisbane, Australia at a cost of $1,000 a week.

Since September 2006, Air Nauru has resumed operations under the new name, Our Airline, with a Boeing 737-300 consuming nearly 30% of the nation's GDP.