Eastern Australia Airlines

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Eastern Australia Airlines is an airline based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, carrying flights under the name of QantasLink. It is a regional domestic airline, wholly owned by Qantas. Its main base is Kingsford Smith International Airport, Sydney, with a hub at Melbourne Airport.

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The airline was established and started operations in 1949. It began in Tamworth as a one aircraft operation, known as Tamworth Air Taxi Service (soon after to be shortened to Tamair), serving farming communities in New South Wales and Queensland. After 36 years of expansion and amalgamation with several smaller commuter operators, the current name was adopted in 1987. Australian Airlines purchased 26% of Eastern Australian Airlines from East-West Airlines in 1988, and the airline became a wholly owned subsidiary in 1991. It is now wholly owned by Qantas and employs 684 staff (at January 2005). The airline operates under the QantasLink brand.

Eastern Australia Airlines operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Albury, Armidale, Ballina, Burnie (Operations Cease 31st July 2006), Canberra, Coffs Harbour, Devonport, Dubbo, Launceston (Operations Commence August 1st 2006), Lord Howe Island, Melbourne, Mildura, Moree, Narrabri, Newcastle, Port Macquarie, Sydney, Tamworth and Wagga Wagga.

The Eastern Australia Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006) [2] :


  1. ^ Airline Codes
  2. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006
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