Qantas Airways has pulled its four representatives from the board of Fiji's Air Pacific to comply with new government regulations.
In March, the Fiji regime issued a decree requiring Fiji-registered airlines to be under substantial ownership and effective control of a Fiji citizen.
The airline says the immediate removal of Simon Hickey, Narendra Kumar, Charles Harvey and Brett Johnson from the Air Pacific board was in response to a recent government decree that required two-thirds of the board to be Fijian citizens.
In a statement, it says the action is a response to intervention in the management of Air Pacific by the Fiji government.
