Airline serving one destination only

[Capt. Chaos]

We only have one scheduled destination, Klawock to Ketchikan.

 

[USMCmech]

Air Nauru has only one plane and only consistently flys one route, Brisbane - Nauru in a 737. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru

Back in the 80s when the island's phosphate mines were booming they had the highest time 737 in the world.

 

[MikeD]

However, they have a habit of moving that destination while you're away

Easy enough to find them though, yes? Up until that pesky EMCON 4 thing happens......

 

[Pilot Fighter]

Easy enough to find them though, yes? Up until that pesky EMCON 4 thing happens......

Finding the boat isn't a problem, getting everybody aboard in a timely manner is the problem.

EMCOM Alpha (no ACLS) at night can turn into a nightmare as traffic stacks up. Before things go to hell Alpha 1 gets the ACLS back up.

Eventually, somebody breaks Alpha with a fuel state call.

EDIT: EMCON conditions are various states of radio (and other emissions) silence, if anybody was curious.

 

[mikecweb]

I hate it when they break Alpha

 

[ChasenSFO]

Air Nauru has only one plane and only consistently flys one route, Brisbane - Nauru in a 737. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru

Back in the 80s when the island's phosphate mines were booming they had the highest time 737 in the world.

Looks like they added 2 more 737s and changed their name to Our Airline. With the expansion it looks like they've added a few cities. Interesting reading about them on the web, few airlines can stay that small for so long and survive. Thanks for pointing that out. Here is a quote from the wiki page about their early years:

The airline also had a bad reputation for cancelling flights at the whim of its government owners, including using the Boeing 727s for low-level searches for Nauruan fisherman lost at sea while relatives on board were served alcohol by the flight attendants.

 

[Pilot Fighter]

Looks like they added 2 more 737s and changed their name to Our Airline. With the expansion it looks like they've added a few cities. Interesting reading about them on the web, few airlines can stay that small for so long and survive. Thanks for pointing that out. Here is a quote from the wiki page about their early years:

Am I the only one that looked up where the hell Nauru is?

 

[ChasenSFO]

Am I the only one that looked up where the hell Nauru is?

Never even heard of it before. The airport seems to take up 1/5 of the whole damn island. For a tropical place, it has almost no wildlife according to wiki. Strange.

 

[USMCmech]

Am I the only one that looked up where the hell Nauru is?

I don't remember when/where I read about it, but the whole island is a small case study in economic/ecological disaster. The modern economy was based on phosphate (AKA guano AKA bird crap) mining, and the entire island was a boom town in the late 20th century. Until they ran out of bird crap.

Now the entire island is out of work and most of the money is long gone.

 

[ArcherII]

Saturn V

 

[ComplexHiAv8r]

Family Air LAS-LAS, but they are excepting applications!

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Am I the only one old enough to remember Wings Airlines in Philly? They had Trislanders and flew between PHL and Wings field. Think they did a little NE Philly too.

 

[Apophis]

Never even heard of it before. The airport seems to take up 1/5 of the whole damn island. For a tropical place, it has almost no wildlife according to wiki. Strange.

Probably because most of the island was/is nothing more than a phosphate mine.

 

[Landis]

Never even heard of it before. The airport seems to take up 1/5 of the whole damn island. For a tropical place, it has almost no wildlife according to wiki. Strange.

Great story about Nauru on This American Life a while back:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/253/the-middle-of-nowhere