Horizon Airlines (Australia)

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Horizon Airlines
IATA ICAO Call sign
BNHZAHORIZ AIR
Commenced operations1999
Ceased operationsNovember 2003
Fleet size2
Headquarters Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Hawker Siddeley HS 748 at Canberra Airport in 2003 Horizon Airlines HS748 Pryde-1.jpg
Hawker Siddeley HS 748 at Canberra Airport in 2003

Horizon Airlines was an Australian airline based in Sydney. It predominantly operated night time cargo services under contract to Australian airExpress using Hawker Siddeley HS 748 and Fairchild Metroliner from Sydney to Cooma, Grafton, Kempsey, Newcastle and Taree. [1]

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In October 2003 was placed in Voluntary administration. [2] In November 2003 MacAir Airlines acquired the airline with the brand retired. [3] [4]

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References

  1. Horizon Airlines Australian Aviation issue 202 January 2004 page 64
  2. Administrators move in on regional airline ABC News 15 October 2003
  3. Airline name to disappear from the Horizon ABC News 10 November 2003
  4. Flight International 12 April 2005
  5. "Horizon Airlines". rzjets. Retrieved 29 May 2021.

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