Macair Airlines

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Macair Airlines
IATA CC	ICAO MCK	Callsign Macair
Founded
Fleet size		6 Saab 340 aircraft 8 Metro 23 aircraft
Destinations		Mt Isa, Cairns, Brisbane, Cloncurry, Longreach, Moranbah, and Queensland Regional centres see more below
Headquarters		Townsville, Queensland
Key people		Chief Pilot - Capt Andre Ayton
Website: http://www.macair.com.au

Macair Airlines is a Queensland regional airline based in Australia with services throughout Queensland, having 32 routes across the region. Its main headquarters is in Townsville with its main operations base at Townsville International Airport and maintains other bases at Cairns International Airport and Brisbane Airport. The airline acquired Transtate airlines along with its routes, which in turn operated routes once operated by Flight West.

Contents 1 History 2 Destinations 3 Fleet 4 External links 5 References

[edit] History

The airline was established and started charter operations in 1992 as McKinlay Air Charters, adding scheduled services in 1998. In May 2000 the Collins family sold the airline to Transjet, owner of Transtates Airlines. The two brands were merged and operate under the Macair name. In November 2003 Macair acquired Horizon Airlines. ^[1]

[edit] Destinations

Routes from Townsville to
Mount Isa, Cloncurry, Winton, Longreach, Moranbah, Brisbane
Hughenden, Richmond, Julia Creek

Routes From Cairns to
Mount Isa, Normanton, Mornington Island, Burketown, Doomadgee
Pompuraaw, Kowanyama

Routes from Brisbane to
Moranbah, Townsville
Oakey, St George, Cunamulla, Thargaminda
Charleville, Quilpie, Birdsville, Bedourie, Boulia, Mount Isa

Charter Connections for Mining Companies from Townsville to
Osborne, BHP's Cannington, Zinifex Limited Century Mine

[edit] Fleet

As of October 2006 the Macair Airlines fleet includes^{[citation needed]}:

• 1 BAe 748 Series 2A
• 7 Fairchild Metro 23
• 1 Fairchild Metro I
• 1 Fairchild Metro III
• 6 Saab 340B
• 1 Shorts SC.7 Skyvan

Macair Airlines continues to expand its Saab 340 fleet with the latest addition (VH-UYI) added in October 2006.

• Saab 340 (Registrations VH-***)
  • Saab 340B - VH-UYA, UYC, UYE, UYF, UYH, UYI

• Fairchild Metro 23
  • VH-HAN, HPE, HPG, MYI, UUA, UUB, UUD, UUF

Former MacAir Saab 340's include VH-XDA,XDZ and Saab 340A VH-ZLY which operates for Regional Express

[edit] External links

• Macair Airlines
• Macair Airlines own Cadet Scheme

( used to be at http://www.macflite.com.au )

[edit] References

1. ^ Flight International 12-18 April 2005