CORPORATE PROFILE

AFL  is responsible for the operation of 15 public airports in the Fiji Islands.   These include two international airports, Nadi International Airport- Fiji’s main international gateway and Nausori Airport - Fiji's domestic hub,  and 13 outer-island domestic airports. 

AFL also provides air traffic management (ATM) in the Nadi flight information region (FIR).  This includes the air spaces of Fiji, Tuvalu, New Caledonia, Kiribati and Vanuatu covering a 6.0 million square kilometer area.  The ATM operations are contracted to Strategic Air Services Limited (SASL). 

AFL is a fully owned Government Commercial Company (GCC) that was established in April 1999.It came into existence as a result of the reorganization of Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji (CAAF) into separate commercial and regulatory authorities under the Section 44 of the Public Enterprises Act, 1996.  

The rationale for AFL’s establishment was part of an overall Fiji Government policy to ensure that Government entities were more efficient, productive, and accountable, better organized, more focused on commercial activities and profitable. The outer-island airports are operated as a non-commercial function of AFL and are funded by Government pursuant to the provisions of the Public Enterprises Act 1996.

AFL has dual reporting to the Minister for Public Enterprises and Public Sector Reform for its commercial performance and to the Minister for Civil Aviation and Transport on aviation policy matters. 

In accordance with the provisions of the Public Enterprises Act 1996, AFL is required to:

(i)                   Carry on the business of international, domestic and outer island airport operations, services and security.

(ii)                  Carry on the business of air traffic management in the Nadi FIR and Fiji’s national sovereign airspace.

(iii)                 Operate as a successful business and be as profitable and efficient as comparable with businesses not owned by the State, and achieve a 10% minimum rate of return on shareholders funds.

(iv)               Invest in the development and maintenance of adequate of airport and ATM facilities to provide for current and future needs.

Our 418 staff works from a $184 million fixed asset base spread over the entire country within the vicinity of the 15 airports we operate.  AFL is required by Government to operate as a commercial company in an efficient and financially prudent manner and to generate 10% financial return on its commercial assets.