O'Connor Airlines
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O'Connor Airlines is a scheduled and charter, domestic, passenger airline based at Mount Gambier in Australia. It operates scheduled services from Mount Gambier to destinations in South Australia and Victoria.
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History
The airline was established and started operations in 1973. Beginning as a one-aeroplane flight school in South Australia, O'Connor Airlines developed, over some years, into a freight and passenger service flying to 18 regional and country centres across the state. This was to change when it lost the freight contact. It subsequently relaunched itself, rebasing in Mount Gambier, and began to fly to Melbourne. It also began to service the Victorian town of Mildura in 1998. The airline uses Qantas facilities at Melbourne and Adelaide airports. Originally, it used those of Australian Airlines. Its main base is at Mount Gambier Airport (MGB), with hubs at Mildura Airport (MQL), Adelaide International Airport (ADL) and Melbourne Airport (MEL), Melbourne.
Services
Domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Adelaide, Melbourne, Mildura, Mount Gambier and Whyalla.
They flew to Renmark for a brief period in 2001, but that service has since ceased. During 2000 (the most recent data available), they carried 41,732 passengers.
Fleet
The O'Connor Airlines fleet consists of 3 BAe Jetstream 32 aircraft and one Cessna 441 aircraft (at November 2005).
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