Air Tahiti Nui was founded on Halloween, October 31st, 1996 and commenced operation Nov 1998. Their first and only aircraft at the time was an Airbus A340-200. The only -200 variant to be in the fleet until 2003. They added five -300 variants in 2003. Their Airbus fleet was retired in 2019 and replaced with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.