Air Ways is an Australian factual television series broadcast on the Seven Network, narrated by Corinne Grant and produced by Lyndal Marks, the executive producer in charge of Border Security. It began screening in July 2009 and was filmed in airports including Melbourne, Coolangatta, Rockhampton, Mackay, Adelaide, Launceston, Hobart and Alice Springs.
Air Ways followed the day-to-day operations of budget airline Tigerair Australia. It had a similar premise to the successful UK factual television series Airline.
Reception Ratings Air Ways had a strong debut, attracting an audience of 1.216 million for its first episode. Subsequent episodes have been watched by over 1.3 million viewers a week. On 25 August 2009, it was the second most popular show of the day.TV Ratings – B&T Today, 26 August 2009
Air Ways was ranked 7th in the top 15 shows for the week ending 25 July 2009 and 13th for the week ending 1 August 2009.TV Ratings – B&T Today, 27 July 2009TV Ratings – B&T Today, 3 August 2009
Episode No.AirdateRatings (in millions)Nightly Rank 1 14 July 2009 1.216 7th 2 21 July 2009 1.549 4th 3 28 July 2009 1.412 6th 4 4 August 2009 1.379 6th 5 11 August 2009 1.334 7th 6 18 August 2009 1.306 7th 7 25 August 2009 1.443 2nd 8 1 September 2009 1.310 6th
Season 2 of Air Ways also had a strong debut in a new Sunday evening time slot, ending up being the fourth most popular show of the night. The show continued to improve, moving to the number one position for several weeks running. Note that the final episode was in fact a repeat of a season one episode, perhaps explaining the sudden ratings slip.TV Ratings – TV Tonight, 8 February 2010
Episode No.AirdateRatings (in millions)Nightly Rank 9 7 February 2010 1.327 4th 10 14 February 2010 1.351 3rd 11 21 February 2010 1.267 3rd 12 28 February 2010 1.342 2nd 13 7 March 2010 1.432 2nd 14 14 March 2010 1.488 1st 15 21 March 2010 1.467 1st 16 28 March 2010 1.097 7th
Reviews TV Tonight, an Australian television blog, rated Air Ways three stars out of five, saying that this format "makes for tasty voyeurism" and that "it will be very entertaining to those who eat up this genre."
See also Airline (1998 TV series)
References
External links Official site – Yahoo!7