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Australian Air Express
399 Elizabeth St., Level 2
Melbourne 3000, Australia
Tel. +61-3-9297-3100
Fax +61-3-9297-3141

Type: Joint Venture
On the web: http://www.aae.com.au
 Employees: 1,292

Moving goods in the Land Down Under? Australian Air Express is one of the leading cargo carriers for Australia. It offers scheduled and charter cargo services, including next flight, overnight, economy, and off peak, for domestic deliveries. It also offers cargo handling, customs clearance, express delivery, and warehousing as part of its international services, which operate in more than 200 countries. It operates offices and agencies in more than 20 locations in Australia and has a presence in about 50 other countries. Founded in 1992, the company is a joint venture between Qantas and Australia Post, which allows Australian Air Express to use its delivery network.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $574.8M

Officers:
CEO: Wayne Dunne
Executive General Manager, Operations: Peter Sheehan
CFO: James Hatherley

Competitors:
Air New Zealand
FedEx
UPS

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Australian air Express
IATA
XM		 ICAO
XME		 Callsign
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Founded 1992
Hubs Melbourne Airport
Fleet size 8 (+1 order)
Destinations 15
Parent company Qantas, Australia Post
Headquarters Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Key people
Website http://www.aae.com.au

Australian air Express is a cargo airline based in Melbourne, Australia. It operates freight-only services within Australia using leased Qantas, National Jet Systems, and Pel-Air aircraft. Its main base is Melbourne Airport.[1]

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History

Express Freighters Australia Boeing 737s now form the core of the Australian air Express fleet
National Jet Systems BAe 146-300 operating on behalf of Australian air Express
Pel-Air Fairchild Expediter operating on behalf of Australian air Express
Australian air Express International facility at Sydney Airport

Australian air Express was established in early 1992 as a Domestic air freight company with the ability of pick-up and delivery services using both vans and trucks. AaE started operations on 1 August 1992. It was established as a joint venture between Australia's largest airline Qantas (50%), and government-owned postal provider Australia Post (50%) as a main competitor to the then Ansett Australia. AaE operates more than 50 nightly inter-capital freighter services.[1] AaE use freight capacity on Qantas domestic flights and also dedicated cargo services operated on their behalf by several different companies, principally using Boeing 727 aircraft. Australian air Express began the phasing out of the 727s in September 2006[2] and they are being replaced by specially-converted Boeing 737 aircraft that were formerly part of the Qantas fleet, operated by Qantas subsidiary Express Freighters Australia. The first Boeing 737 entered service on 24 October 2006.[2]

Operations

AaE flight operations are somewhat complex and varied. "Next Flight" services use space on the next available scheduled Qantas passenger flights. Items carried for Overnight, 2 Day Economy and Off-Peak deliveries are flown on both Qantas and Australian air Express aircraft operated by Express Freighters Australia, National Jet Systems subsidiary National Jet Express, and Pel-Air. Due to the three different service providers, AaE flights operate using different flight numbers and callsigns. The Express Freighters Australia Boeing 737s use Qantas flight numbers and callsigns as the ground handling is done by Qantas/Express Freighters,[3] while National Jet Express uses the callsign "Jetex" and uses the IATA designator XM for its flight numbers (and uses the ICAO designator XME).[2][4] Pel-Air flights also use XM flight numbers but have no specific callsigns. AaE also has an international Division called Australian air Express International.

Destinations

Australian air Express currently operates freight services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at February 2008):[5][2][4]

Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia

Fleet

The following aircraft are currently in the Australian air Express fleet (at September 2008):[1][4][6][7]

Australian air Express Fleet
Aircraft Total Notes
Boeing 727-200F 1 Operated by National Jet Express
Boeing 737-300F 4 (1 order) Operated by Express Freighters Australia
BAe 146-300QT 2 Operated by National Jet Express
BAe 146-100QT 1 Operated by National Jet Express

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ a b c "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: pp. 80–81. 2007-03-27. 
  2. ^ a b c d Reid, Gordon. "Freighter Farewell", Australian Aviation magazine No. 239, June 2007, p70-71. Phantom Media Pty. Ltd., Fyshwick ACT. ISSN 0813-0876
  3. ^ Sydney Airport website retrieved 2008-02-05.
  4. ^ a b c National Jet Express AOC retrieved 2008-09-06.
  5. ^ Australian air Express locations retrieved 2008-02-05.
  6. ^ Express Freighters Australia AOC retrieved 2008-09-06.
  7. ^ Australian civil aircraft register search, using "National Jet Express" as the search parameter. Search conducted 6 September 2008.
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