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.

Contents 1 Code Data 2 History 3 Services 4 Fleet 5 External links

[edit] Code Data

• IATA Code: UQ
• ICAO Code: OCM
• Callsign: OCONNOR

Note: IATA Code OL was used up to 1990)

[edit] 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 services from that city to Adelaide and Melbourne. It then started flying to Whyalla. It began to service the Victorian city of Mildura in 1998, purchasing a QantasLink route. In 2006, after the death of Airlines of South Australia it began flying from Adelaide to Port Augusta.

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), and flying to airports including Mildura Airport (MQL), Adelaide International Airport (ADL) and Melbourne Airport (MEL), Melbourne.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Fleet

The O'Connor Airlines fleet consists of 3 BAe Jetstream 32 aircraft and one Cessna 441 aircraft (at November 2005).

[edit] External links

• O'Connor Airlines