FlyPelican
Regional airline of Australia
Pelican Airlines Pty Ltd, operating as FlyPelican, is an Australian regional airline. Created by former Aeropelican staff with its previous aircraft fleet, FlyPelican initially operated air charter services and subsequently commenced scheduled flights on 1 June 2015. The airline is currently the only airline based in Newcastle, New South Wales, with its main base at Newcastle Airport.
FlyPelican offers both Regular Public Transport Services to destinations across NSW, ACT, QLD and Adhoc / Contracted charters. The company slogan is Fly Local, Fly Pelican.
01Destinations
As of April 2025, in addition to regular and adhoc charters, FlyPelican operates to the following destinations:
- Australian Capital Territory
- Canberra
- New South Wales
- Narrabri
- Cobar
- Newcastle
- Gold Coast
- Sydney
Victoria
- Melbourne / Geelong
Terminated destinations
- New South Wales
- Taree
- Port Macquarie
- Dubbo
- Bathurst
- Ballina
- Albury
- Mudgee
- South Australia
- Adelaide
- Adelaide Airport (operated March 2018 to April 2019 by Alliance Airlines)
Queensland
- Sunshine Coast
Interline agreements
02Fleet
As of August 2026, FlyPelican operates the following aircraft:
| Aircraft | In fleet | Passengers |
|---|---|---|
| British Aerospace Jetstream 31 | 5 | 19 |
| British Aerospace Jetstream 41 | 1 | 30 |
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “FlyPelican”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- FlyPelican (VH-NTL) BAe Jetstream 32 taxiing at Sydney Airport.jpg by Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0 au
- FlyPelican (VH-OTD) British Aerospace Jetstream 32 at Bankstown Airport.jpg by YSSYguy, CC BY-SA 4.0
- FlyPelican, wearing Pinkup Mudgee titles, (VH-NTL) British Aerospace Jetstream 32 at Bankstown Airport.jpg by YSSYguy at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
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