List of defunct airlines of Oceania
Appearance
This is a list of defunct airlines of Oceania.
American Samoa
Defunct airlines of American Samoa include:[1][2]
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations |
Ceased operations |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Inter Island Airways | 1993 | 2015 | |||||
Samoa Airlines | MB | 1982 | 1986 | ||||
Samoan Air Lines | 1959 | 1960 | |||||
South Pacific Island Airways | HK | SPI | SOUTH PACIFIC | 1973 | 1987 |
Australia
Fiji
Defunct airlines of Fiji include:
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations |
Ceased operations |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Air Fiji | PC | FAJ | FIJIAIR | 1995 | 2009 |
French Polynesia
Defunct airlines of French Polynesia include:
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations |
Ceased operations |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Air Moorea | QE | TAH | AIR MOOREA | 1968 | 2010 |
Guam
Defunct airlines of Guam include:
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations |
Ceased operations |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Air Mike Express | AM | AME | AIR MIKE | 1994 | 2012 | ||
Continental Micronesia | CS | CMI | AIR MIKE | 1968 | 2012 | Rebranded as a subsidiary United Airlines in 2012 and eventually absorbed by United in 2017. | |
Freedom Air | FP | FRE | FREEDOM | 1974 | 2013 |
Kiribati
Defunct airlines of Kiribati include:
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations |
Ceased operations |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Air Tungaru | VK | TUN | 1977 | 1994 |
New Zealand
Norfolk Island
Defunct airlines of the Norfolk Island include:
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations |
Ceased operations |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Norfolk Air | N5 | NFK | NORFIK AIR | 2005 | 2011 | ||
Norfolk Island Airlines | UG | NIA | 1973 | 1992 | |||
Norfolk Island Airlines | 2017 | 2018 | Used Nauru Airlines aircraft | ||||
Norfolk Jet Express | YE | 1997 | 2004 |
Northern Mariana Islands
Defunct airlines of the Northern Mariana Islands include:[1][2]
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations |
Ceased operations |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Air Marianas | 1983 | 1984 | |||||
Fly Marianas | 2012 | 2012 | |||||
Pacific Island Aviation | 9J | PSA | PACIFIC ISLE | 1987 | 2005 | ||
Saipan Air | Q7 | 2011 | 2012 | Formed by Tan Holdings (owner of Asia Pacific Airlines). Expected to start operations on 1 July 2012 using ACMI aircraft (wet lease) from Swift Air. However deposits paid to Swift Air "evaporated" when Swift Air entered Chapter 11 and Saipan Air halted its project on 29 June 2012. |
Palau
Defunct airlines of Palau include:
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations |
Ceased operations |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Palau Airways | P7 | PAU | PALAIRWAYS | 2011 | 2013 | ||
Palau Micronesia Air | 2002 | 2004 | |||||
Palau Pacific Airways | ED | AXE | PPA | 2014 | 2018 | ||
Palau Trans Pacific Airlines | GP | 2002 | 2005 |
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Defunct airlines of Samoa include:[1][2]
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations |
Ceased operations |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Polynesian Airlines | OL | PAO | POLYNESIAN | 1959 | 2017 | Rebranded as Samoa Airways | |
Polynesian Blue | DJ | PBL | BLUEBIRD | 2005 | 2011 | Rebranded as Virgin Samoa | |
Samoa Air | OL | SZB | SAMOA | 2012 | 2015 | ||
South Pacific Express | SPX | 2005 | 2009 | ||||
Virgin Samoa | VA | VOZ | VELOCITY | 2011 | 2017 |
Tonga
Vanuatu
Defunct airlines of Vanuatu include:[1][2]
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations |
Ceased operations |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Air Melanesiæ | HB | 1965 | 1989 | Formed by New Hebrides Airways and Hebridair. Later renamed Vanair | |||
Dovair | 1987 | 1990 | |||||
New Hebrides Airways | 1963 | 1965 | Merged with Hebridair to form Air Melanesiæ | ||||
Hebridair | 1964 | 1965 | Merged with New Hebrides Airways to form Air Melanesiæ | ||||
Vanair | X4 | ZHI | 1989 | 2004 | Originally formed as Air Melanesiae. Acquired by Air Vanuatu in 2001 for five months, when the merger was reversed. The airlines remerged in 2004. |
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "The World's leading Airline Intelligence Provider since 1998". ch-aviation.com. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ a b c d "Since 1997, ATDB is the only service providing an accurate global and permanently updated details of all worldwide transport aircraft, airlines, private and government operators - and leasing companies". aerotransport.org. Retrieved 2019-03-09.