Alliance Airlines to Base Fokker 100 at Adelaide

Alliance Airlines is to base a single Fokker 100 at Adelaide Airport from the final quarter of this year to support its growing charter business. The carrier, which specialises in supporting the mining business and more recently providing general tourist charters, is also opening a second maintenance facility at the airport as its existing capacity at its Brisbane will soon be fully utilised.

Since we opened our Adelaide base in 2007, it has become increasingly important to us as both a maintenance and operations hub for our Fokker 50 fleet,” said Scott McMillan, Managing Director, Alliance Airlines. “We started in South Australia with two Fokker 50 aircraft and 18 staff, but have grown in a relatively short space of time to five Fokker 50s and 74 staff – and we will continue to expand.”

The airline will take delivery of two Fokker 100s in the next week, but these will undergo major maintenance checks prior to entering service in the fourth quarter, one from Adelaide. The aircraft will support a number of new charter contracts which will see Alliance flying tourists to destinations including Kangaroo Island, the Flinders Ranges, Lake Eyre and Coober Pedy.