Our History

Inflight Publishing Pty Ltd is a company born in the Queensland outback.

Whilst attending a mining expo in the township of Mount Isa, Patrick McElligot met the owner of a small regional airline. Back then, the airline only flew a few miners on fly-in and fly-out basis and consumer passengers from Brisbane to Cloncurry, Mount Isa and onto Townsville. The idea was raised of an onboard magazine and the first issue of Inflight Magazine MacAir airlines was produced in November 1999.

Inflight Publishing has grown considerably since then. The magazine, produced as a quarterly production, went to an informative and entertaining bi-monthly magazine. This was specifically to cater for the growth of MacAir passengers, as the airline merged with Transtate and Jetcraft airlines out of Cairns.

Expansion of the company continued with publishing an inflight magazine for other regional airlines throughout Australia.  These included Regional Link Airlines, Northern Territory; Skippers Airlines, Western Australia; Tasair Airlines, Tasmania; Sharp Airlines, Victoria; Brindabella and Aeropelican Airlines, New South Wales.

In 2008, Airport Magazine was born. This new branch of magazines is available in airport arrival and departures lounges, free of charge to airport visitors. Our airport magazines include Townsville Airport Magazine, Mount Isa Airport Magazine, Newcastle Airport Magazine and Coffs Harbour Airport Magazine.

Another new development came about for the company in 2011 with the creation of Mining Life & Living, a lifestyle magazine catering to employees of the mining industry and delivered direct to mine sites.

Today, Inflight Publishing Pty Ltd employs a growing team of dedicated sales staff, an experienced journalist/editor and innovative graphic artist.

Articles published within the magazines are inherently local, covering the coast through to the outback. They not only include international and national stories, celebrity interviews and lifestyle stories, but also encompass Australia’s regional tourism through events, travel experiences and stories about Australians projecting the country into the future through innovation and technology.