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  • Fly Corporate begins flights to Melbourne Essendon

    Regional carrier Fly Corporate has expanded into Victoria for the first time with the start of nonstop flights between Melbourne Essendon and Orange.

    The inaugural service took off from Orange on Monday morning, with flight FC332 operated by Saab 340B VH-VEM touching down at Melbourne Essendon about 90 minutes later, where it received a traditional welcome from the Metropolitan Fire Brigade.

    The aircraft was on the ground for about an hour before operating the reciprocal FC333 back to Orange.

    Fly Corporate has scheduled a single return service on weekdays as a late morning departure from Orange and a lunchtime takeoff back from Melbourne Essendon.

    It is the second Fly Corporate route from Orange, following the start of flights between the NSW Central West city and Brisbane in February 2017 with Saab 340B equipment.



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    From a plane spotter's perspective Fly Corporate is the most annoying operator in Australia. Although all of their planes are ADS-B equipped, they transmit no info other than a callsign made up, usually, of the last three letters of the aircraft rego but have requested blocking on both FR24 and FlightAware. FR24 shows the planes but no info whatsoever. The only way to get more info about their flights is if you can pick them up close to Brisbane or Sydney on one of the localised plane tracking sites that don't respect frivolous blocking requests.

    This mob are operating regular public transport (RPT) services using old propjets and people buying tickets on RPT carriers in this day and age are entitled to expect that they can follow such flights on public services like FR24. End of rant.

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