Media Room

Aeropelican to Fly to the Snowy Mountains

26 February 2010

Aeropelican is a Newcastle based independent regional airline, which currently operates services to Sydney from Newcastle, Mudgee and Narrabri.

Aeropelican operates a fleet of BAE Jetstream 32 Turboprop aircraft and the new Snowy Mountains service will be operated using these aircraft.

The new service to Snowy Mountains Airport will commence on Friday 11th June 2010, with three return flights daily from Sydney to the Snowy Mountains Sunday-Friday, and two return flights on Saturdays during the winter months.

The winter flight times have been designed to allow connection to other services both domestically and internationally.

The flight schedule and online booking is now avialble.

According to Aeropelican, flights to and from the Snowy Mountains will have fares starting from just $129, including all taxes and charges.

Aeropelican General Manager, Paul Graham, said “as an airline focused on regional New South Wales, Aeropelican is committed to maintaining and growing air services in regional areas. We are dedicated to our vision of being a high quality and good value carrier for regional travellers.

“This announcement is great news for the Snowy Mountains community and it is a great credit to the hard work of the Snowy Mountains Airport. I would like to congratulate Kevin Blyton and his team who have put this together, along with Aeropelican and the Tourism industry in the Snowy Mountains who have strongly supported air services”, said Steve Whan NSW Member for Monaro.

“Cutting down travel times to just over an hour by plane, compared to five hours by road, will encourage people to visit and live in the Snowy Mountains and will certainly make NSW ski fields far more attractive than the competition in New Zealand and Victoria", Mr Whan said.