Charter airline Pionair Australia has applied to The International Air Services Commission (IASC) to operate twice weekly passenger services from Brisbane to Tarawa, Kiribati via Honiara, Solomon Islands and Nauru.

The airline’s application requests to operate return trips and includes a combined passenger/cargo service to Nauru.

The application is for a 184-seater E190-E2 aircraft or substitute to service these routes.

If successful, these new flights should boost visitor arrivals into Tarawa.