JETGO Australia


JETGO Australia was a regional airline and air charter company based at Eagle Farm, Queensland near Brisbane Airport.
The airline operated scheduled domestic passenger services in the Eastern states of Australia, which were suspended when the airline was placed under voluntary administration on 1 June 2018. It also offered charter services, particularly fly-in fly-out operations in support of the mining and resources sectors.
JETGO operated a fleet of Embraer Regional Jets, with a capacity of between 36 and 50 passengers.
, April 2012

Overview

The company took delivery of its first 37-seat Embraer 135 aircraft in March 2012. and was granted an air operator's certificate by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority in May that year. As of July 2012, JETGO Australia was operating FIFO and charter services throughout Australia. Despite having a business model initially focused on charter operations, following approval by CASA in October 2014, JETGO announced it would begin establishing regular public transport services. The company planned to grow its fleet to as many as 10 aircraft, focusing on longer regional routes in Queensland and New South Wales of between 400 km and 1200 km.
JETGO announced two original routes from Sydney to Roma and Tamworth, both scheduled to commence in November 2014. After delaying the start of Sydney-Roma route however, the airline announced that the services would not proceed. In February 2015, JETGO also announced that it would suspend its Sydney-Gladstone service, citing poor patronage.
Shortly after announcing its inaugural routes, JETGO announced that it would operate services between Brisbane and Tamworth, with up to 10 flights per week. The launch of the route was timed to coincide with the annual country music festival in January 2015.
On 1 June 2018 the airline was placed under voluntary administration, and all scheduled passenger operations were suspended. Jonathan McLeod and Bill Karageozis from McLeod Partners were appointed as the airline’s administrators. The Supreme Court of New South Wales ruled that JETGO to be liquidated, following the creditors report by the administrators that showed JETGO owed million to creditors and may have been trading while insolvent since 30 June 2016.

Fleet

As of 1 June 2018, the JETGO fleet consisted of the following aircraft:

AircraftIn serviceOrdersPassengers
Embraer ERJ 135LR
2
0
37
Embraer ERJ 140LR
1
0
44
Embraer ERJ 145LR
2
50
Embraer 190
0
2
96
Total52

Destinations

During the period of operation JETGO flew to the following destinations: