Air Vanuatu

[Tristan S]

Report on stuff.co.nz that Air Vanuatu have 'grounded' flights and entered Voluntary Administration.


Air Vanuatu has cancelled or adjusted some 20 international flights.
The airline has reportedly been placed into administration.
Air Vanuatu said it is working with partner airlines to minimise disruption and will contact affected customers.


They have suffered quite a bit of late, with AOG and needing to enlist other airlines (Nauru / Solomon) to help them out.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/350272855/air-vanuatu-grounds-flights-after-reportedly-going-administration

[Adrian B]

Photos and an article about YJ-AV8 on a news.com.au article here:

News.com.au Article (https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/boeing-jet-abandoned-at-melbourne-airport-as-airline-owes-millions/news-story/2b49fd476cae8b5cd65fc82d7243cfa6)

[Dennis McLean]

YJ-AV8, 738, ex Air Vanuatu is now registered HL8700, owner ALC, to Eastar Jet. It departed MEL on 25/7/24 for Kota Kinabalu-BKI arrived at 7.16pm. Then on 7/9/24, I can only find, Jinan-TNA to Seoul, Gimpo-GMP, 2.19pm/4.45pm. It obviously went BKI to TNA sometime??

[Sean L]

YJ-AV8, 738, ex Air Vanuatu is now registered HL8700, owner ALC, to Eastar Jet. It departed MEL on 25/7/24 for Kota Kinabalu-BKI arrived at 7.16pm. Then on 7/9/24, I can only find, Jinan-TNA to Seoul, Gimpo-GMP, 2.19pm/4.45pm. It obviously went BKI to TNA sometime??

ESR142D MEL-BKI, departing 1320L 25/7/2024 and arriving 1916L 25/7/2024
ESR142D BKI-? , departing 2101L 25/7/2024 and last seen 0149L 26/7/2024 at 37°02'52.0"N 122°27'05.0"E
ESR142D ?-GMP, first seen 1429L 7/9/2024 at 37°03'57.4"N 122°22'54.6"E and arriving 1648L 7/9/2024

That's all I could find, have no idea where it stayed between 26/7 and 7/9, perhaps someone with a paid FR24 account may be able to help.

[Tristan S]

ESR142D MEL-BKI, departing 1320L 25/7/2024 and arriving 1916L 25/7/2024
ESR142D BKI-? , departing 2101L 25/7/2024 and last seen 0149L 26/7/2024 at 37°02'52.0"N 122°27'05.0"E
ESR142D ?-GMP, first seen 1429L 7/9/2024 at 37°03'57.4"N 122°22'54.6"E and arriving 1648L 7/9/2024

That's all I could find, have no idea where it stayed between 26/7 and 7/9, perhaps someone with a paid FR24 account may be able to help.

TNA is the missing stop, arriving there at 0244 on the 26th and departing at 1419 on the 7th