National Jet

Infobox Airline
airline = National Jet Systems

fleet_size = 30
destinations =
IATA = NC
ICAO = NJS
callsign = NATIONAL
JETEX
parent =
company_slogan =
founded = 1989
headquarters = Adelaide Airport, South Australia, Australia
key_people =
hubs = Perth Airport
secondary_hubs = Darwin International Airport
Cairns International Airport
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frequent_flyer =
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website = [http://www.nationaljet.com.au/ www.nationaljet.com.au] National Jet Systems, known as National Jet, is a scheduled and charter airline based in Adelaide, Australia. It provides aviation services including wet leasing, scheduled airline operations, charter and resource industry air services for major corporate and government organisations. Its main base is Adelaide International Airport, with hubs at Cairns International Airport, Darwin International Airport and Perth Airport. [cite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | page= 54 | date= 2007-04-10] It is a major contractor for QantasLink. [ [http://www.qantas.com.au/info/about/company/qantasLink About Our Subsidiary Companies: QantasLink] (accessed 2008-03-10)]

History

National Jet Systems (NJS) was established in 1989 and started operations on 1 July 1990. It soon commenced scheduled operations on behalf of Australian Airlines, mainly to tourist destinations in northern Australia, operating a fleet of BAe 146 aircraft under the Airlink brand. After Australian Airlines was taken over by Qantas it continued these operations, and in 2005 commenced operating Boeing 717 aircraft, the operation being rebranded as QantasLink at the same time. The services on behalf of QantasLink are contracted until 2012. [ [http://www.nationaljet.com.au/News/NJS_press%20Qantas.pdf "Cobham Australia Subsidiary National Jet Seals Increased B717 Fleet, Five Year Deal with QantasLink"; National Jet Media Release.] Retrieved 6 September 2008.] It has a subsidiary company; National Jet Express, known as Jetex, which conducts scheduled freight services on behalf of Australian air Express (AaE) [http://www.casa.gov.au/casadata/aoc/download/ML580965-07.pdf National Jet Express AOC.] Retrieved: 6 September 2008] . Jetex operates three BAe 146 freighters on night freight services to and from curfew-restricted Sydney Airport, and a single Boeing 727 freighter between Perth Airport and Melbourne Airport. NJS's sister company National Air Support has a subsidiary, Surveillance Australia, [ [http://www.nationalairsupport.com.au/company.asp National Air Support - Our Company page.] Retrieved 6 September 2008.] which operates on behalf of the Border Protection Command. NJS and National Air Support are themselves subsidiary companies of Cobham plc. Another subsidiary company, Fleet Support, formerly operated Learjets configured as target tugs on behalf of the Royal Australian Navy until the contract was lost to Pel-Air in 1996. Fleet Support is no longer active, except as the owner of one of the BAe 146 aircraft used by NJS.

Destinations

National Jet's operations can be broken into four separate branches; it flies some scheduled services on its own behalf, [ [http://www.nationaljet.com.au/Schedules/Index-Schedules.html National Jet ticketed schedules page.] Retrieved: 6 September 2008.] but the majority of its scheduled operations are on behalf of QantasLink and AaE. It also has an extensive charter operation in support of the mining industry. [ [http://www.nationaljet.com.au/News/NJS_press%20Bristow.pdf "National Jet Seals Expanded Services for Murrin Murrin"; National Jet Media Release.] Retrieved 6 September 2008.] [ [http://www.nationaljet.com.au/News/NJS_press%20Murrin%20Murrin.pdf "National Jet Seals Barrow Island Contract with Bristow Helicopters"; National Jet Media Release.] Retrieved 6 September 2008.]

;National Jet scheduled services::Perth to Christmas Island:Perth to Cocos (Keeling) Islands:Perth to Ravensthorpe, Western Australia:Adelaide to Moomba, South Australia:Adelaide to Ballera, Queensland

;Domestic scheduled destinations for QantasLink::Perth:Darwin:Alice Springs:Cairns:Karratha:Broome:Ayers Rock (Uluru):Port Hedland:Gove (Nhulunbuy):Paraburdoo:Kalgoorlie:Newman

Fleet

As of September 2008 the National Jet Systems fleet consists of the following aircraft: [http://www.casa.gov.au/casadata/regsearch/airsresults.asp?VHin=&framein=all&manuin=&modelin=&regholdin=&regopin=National+Jet&serialin=&num_results=50&Search=Search Australian civil aircraft register search, using "National Jet" as the search parameter.] Search conducted 6 September 2008.] [ [http://www.casa.gov.au/casadata/aoc/download/ML436109-41.pdf National Jet Systems AOC.] Retrieved 6 September 2008.]

*1 Avro RJ70
*5 BAe 146-100
*1 BAe 146-100QT (registered to NJS, operated by Jetex on freight services for AaE)
*3 BAe 146-200
*2 BAe 146-300
*2 BAe 146-300QT (registered to NJS, operated by Jetex on freight services for AaE)
*14 Boeing 717-200 (operated by NJS for QantasLink, includes three aircraft in storage)
*1 Boeing 727-200F (owned and operated by Jetex on freight services for AaE)
*1 de Havilland Canada DHC-8-103

External links

* [http://www.nationaljet.com.au/ National Jet Systems]
* [http://www.njsperth.com.au/ NJS Charter Perth]
* [http://www.fraviation.com/ FR Aviation]
* [http://www.surveillanceaustralia.com.au/ Surveillance Australia]

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