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.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4][5]
Episode No.
Airdate
Ratings (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.[6]
Episode No.
Airdate
Ratings (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."[7]
