Australian Air Express
| Australian Air Express | |
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| IATA code : | QF / XM |
| ICAO code : | QFA / XME |
| Call sign : | QANTAS / JETEX |
| Founding: | 1992 |
| Operation stopped: | 2012 |
| Seat: |
Melbourne , Australia
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| Home airport : | Melbourne Airport |
| Company form: | Subsidiary of Qantas / Australia Post |
| Fleet size: | 6th |
| Aims: | national |
| Australian Air Express ceased operations in 2012. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Australian air Express (AaE) was an Australian air freight company based in Melbourne . It operated an air freight network within Australia with leased aircraft from Qantas , NationalJet and Pel-Air . The main base was at Melbourne Airport .
history
Australian air Express was founded in early 1992 as a joint venture between Qantas (50%) and the state-owned postal company Australia Post (50%). Operations began on August 1, 1992. Initially, AaE used cargo capacity on Qantas' domestic scheduled flights and also offered other companies cargo space in their Boeing 727s . From September 2006, the B727 were ausgeflottet and converted to air freighters B737 Qantas subsidiary Express Freighters Australia replaced. The first Boeing B737 went into service on October 24, 2006.
AaE's flight operations are very extensive and variable. “Next Flight” uses free freight capacity on Qantas scheduled passenger flights. Freight that can reach its destination overnight or later is carried on machines from Express Freighters Australia, National Jet Systems and Pel-Air. As cargo is carried by three providers, AaE flies under different flight numbers, codes and call signs. Express Freighters Australia's B737 uses Qantas flight numbers, codes and callsigns as ground handling is in the hands of Qantas / Express Freighters. National Jet Express uses the IATA and ICAO codes XM and XME and the callsign "Jetex". Pel-Air also uses the IATA code XM , but does not have a separate callsign.
On October 2, 2012, Qantas took over the 50% stake in Australia Post and integrated Australian Air Express into the subsidiary Qantas Freight .
fleet
As of March 2011, the fleet consisted of six aircraft:
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ ch-aviation.ch (English), accessed on November 6, 2013
- ↑ ch-aviation.ch: Australian Air Express fleet ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. November 3, 2009
