Air Australia

Air Australia Limited is a major airline of Australia with the major hub at Sydney Airport. Margaret Mills is an air hostess for the airline, meeting Morello on a constellation flight from Sydney to South Africa. In the 1970s, the mafia takes advantage of Air Australia's stop in Tehran to smuggle back Iranian hashish using Tina and other air hostesses as mules. Throughout Australian Enemy: Part III it is referenced multiple times that Air Australia is facing bankruptcy and the airline survival is looking glim.

History
Air Australia was founded in 1923 Air Australia Limited as a small regional mail carrier, receiving subsidizes from the Australian Commonwealth government. Air Australia began flying passengers internationally internationally in 1937 with a thrice weekly flying boat service using Shorts Empire flying boats. The Sydney to Southampton service took nine days, with passengers staying in hotels during overnight stays.

With the outbreak of World War II, the Air Australia fleet was taken over of the Australian Government for war service.

After WWII Air Australia resumed flying to commercial operations and soon began its first services outside the British Empire-to Tokyo via Darwin and Manila with Avro Lancastrian aircraft. Douglas DC-4s were deployed between and London in co-operation with BOAC. Services to Hong Kong began around this same time.



In 1947 the Lockheed Constellation took over the trunk route to London, flying westward from Australia to London through Asia and the Middle East. From 1950 Short Sandringham flying boats again entered service for flights between the Rose Bay flying boat base on Sydney Harbour and destinations in New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fiji and New Guinea.

In 1952 Constellation services expanded across the Indian Ocean to Johannesburg via Perth, the Cocos Islands and Mauritius (the Constellation continued to fly to South Africa up to 1966). The Constellations also flew across the Pacific to Vancouver via Auckland, Nadi, Honolulu and San Francisco.

The Jet Age
In 1957, Air Australia ordered the Boeing 707 jetliner and three years later Air Australia flew it's first jet service after delivery of the new Boeing 707 from Sydney to San Francisco via Nadi and Honolulu.

With the introduction of the massive Boeing 747 into the Air Australia fleet in 1971, the airline began flying the 747 from Australia to Europe via Tehran and the United States via Honolulo. The 707 remained flying between New Zealand and Japan until 1979 with the final Boeing 707 flight from Auckland to Sydney.