ASL Airlines Australia
Pionair was founded in 1991 in Queenstown, New Zealand as a sight seeing company with a restored Douglas DC-3.It diversified into fly-in fly-out work with contracts for the Thiess Sedgman joint venture in Queensland and Fortescue Metals Group in Western Australia.Freight operations commenced in 2007 for Toll Priority with a converted passenger Convair 580 with two more purchased in 2008.[3] Since 2016 AAA has operated cargo aircraft for FedEx / TNT, initially under contract to Virgin Australia and since March 2020 to Qantas Freight.[6][7] The Pionair Australia fleet[8] consists of the following aircraft: The first of two Embraer E190-E2 were delivered in January 2020 for operations on behalf of Air Kiribati, scheduled to start in mid-2020 but the agreement was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the other aircraft not being taken up.