Civil Aviation Authority involvement is expected to boost new measures to ensure the safety of Vanuatu's main international airport runway.
This follows a decision by Air New Zealand and Qantas to suspend flights to Bauerfield Airport due to concerns about issues like debris on the runway.
In response, the Authority and Airports Vanuatu Ltd have immediately increased actions to mitigate the runway problem.
The acting general manager of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office, Robert McLellan, says that to maintain its certification, Airports Vanuatu would be operating under much closer surveillance under the Civil Aviation Authority.
"And they will be required to have much higher degree of inspections of the runway, noting and repairing any small parts so that they don't become unsafe, and that sweeping, if there has been cracking or erosion of the surface and that there are any lose bits of debris, that those are constantly being removed so that there's not being ingested by aircraft."