Virgin Australia Regional Airlines

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Virgin Australia Regional Airlines
IATA code :	XR
ICAO code :	OZW
Call sign :	OZWEST
Founding:	1963 (as Carnarvon Air Taxi)
Seat:	Perth , Australia
Home airport :	Perth airport
Company form:	Pty. Ltd.
Management:	Jeff Chatfield
Number of employees:	170
Sales:	A $ 173.8 million (2010)
Frequent Flyer Program :	Velocity Frequent Flyer
Fleet size:	20th
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.virginaustralia.com

Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (formerly Skywest Airlines ) is an Australian regional airline based in Perth and based at Perth Airport . It is a subsidiary of Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd. and a sister company of Virgin Australia Airlines . The Virgin Group holds 8.7% of Virgin Australia Holdings.

history

Skywest Airlines' BAe Jetstream 31 in the early 1990s

Virgin Australia Regional Airlines emerged from Carnarvon Air Taxi, founded in 1963 . Renamed Skywest Airlines in 1972 , the company received an order from the customs authorities to monitor the coastline. The order could easily be combined with a liner service. Skywest gradually took over several micro-airlines and their routes and aircraft. The resulting fleet of up to 15 aircraft types was reduced to two, the Fokker 50 and 100 , at the end of the 1980s .

The company was sold several times and was owned by CaptiveVision Capital from Singapore and the Avion Group from Iceland until 2013 . As part of a cooperation with Virgin Australia , Skywest uses their frequent flyer program Velocity and has operated several ATR 72-500s purchased by Virgin Australia in their route network since 2011 . In early April 2013, Skywest was taken over by Virgin Australia. On May 7, 2013, the airline changed its name to Virgin Australia Regional Airlines .

Destinations

From its base at Perth Airport , Virgin Australia Regional Airlines serves numerous destinations in western Australia as well as Denpasar on Bali, currently the only international destination .

fleet

Fokker 100 of Virgin Australia Regional Airlines

As of March 2020, the Virgin Australia Regional Airlines fleet consists of 20 aircraft with an average age of 24.3 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats
Airbus A320-200	6th			162
Fokker 100	14th			100
total	20th	-

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Skywest  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Virgin Australia website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} skywest.com - Annual Reports ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed October 15, 2011 
2. ↑ ch-aviation - Virgin Australia completes legalities to become 100% owner of Skywest, April 12, 2013 (English)
3. ↑ ch-aviation - As of May 7, Skywest now officially Virgin Australia Regional Airlines, May 8, 2013 (English)
4. ↑ virginaustralia.com - Destinations (English), accessed on November 25, 2016
5. ^ Virgin Australia Regional Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 12, 2020 . 
6. ↑ virginaustralia.com - Seat Maps , accessed November 25, 2016