Australian Coast to Coast Virtual Airlines started around late November of 2008. It was founded by Motomad And Airline Ace. We started out with just a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300, Pilatus PC-12, and a couple Beechcraft King Air 350's. We flew those around south east Australia for not to long but long enough to get enough money to lease our first Jet Aircraft. The 737-200.
With the 737-200 seating up to 110 people and a fairly fuel efficient aircraft it was a nice start to jet aviation. This aircraft was the start of our New Zealand service's with Airline Ace picking up the first International flight for us, and a first flight to New Zealand.
After this is wasn't long before we got a nice little partnership going with Air UK, with them giving us a helping hand of cheap leasing prices for us, so this could mean we could lease our very own 737-800 and a 747-400. It wasn't long before flights were departing Sydney's Kingsford Smith International Airport on long hauls to California (A flight of 14 hours which is still flown to this day).
From then on we have had plenty of flights going as well as pilots joining along the way.
The airline continued to expand rapidly with pilots and aircraft. Soon airline repaints started coming out. It wasn't long before we had connections in every continent and flights just about everywhere.
Today we are officially the top airline in Australia in a number of aspects and we now have opened direct services between Sydney and London with our brand new 777-200LR (It is a flight of over 18 hours and only very experienced pilots can fly this route. The few lucky people who get to fly this route can see the sun rise in Australia and see it set in Europe).
We now own most of our aircraft in our fleet, usually only have 2-3 leased. Also we are now the largest virtual airline in Australia with a diverse fleet and flightplans all over the world. We are always looking for new pilots, so if your not already flying for us and want to get into the Virtual Airline world, just go to the join page and the FSAirlines page.
