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HISTORY The airline was established and started operations in 1949 . It began in Tamworth as a one aircraft, one pilot operation, known as Tamworth Air Taxi Service (soon after to be shortened to Tamair), serving farming communities in New South Wales and Queensland . After 36 years of expansion and amalgamation with several smaller commuter operators, the current name was adopted in 1987 . Australian Airlines purchased 26% of Eastern Australian Airlines from East-West Airlines in 1988 , and the airline became a wholly owned subsidiary in 1991 . Qantas purchased Australian Airlines in 1992 . In the early 2000's, Qantas merged it's Mildura based subsidiary Southern Australia Airlines with Eastern, the resulting operation using the Eastern name. In March 2007 , the company employed 684 staff. DESTINATIONS Eastern Australia Airlines operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Albury , Armidale , Ballina (ceased 2006), Burnie (ceased July 2006), Canberra , Coffs Harbour , Devonport , Dubbo , Launceston (commencing August 2006), Lord Howe Island , Melbourne , Mildura , Moree , Narrabri , Newcastle , Port Macquarie , Sydney , Tamworth and Wagga Wagga . FLEET The Eastern Australia Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2007 ) : REFERENCES |
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