Ready for Takeoff

Ready for Takeoff is an Australian observational and airline television series aired on the Nine Network on 30 October 2015.^[1] The series was renewed for a second season and premiered on 7 October 2016.^[2]

Ready for Takeoff
Title card for Ready for Takeoff
Genre	Factual
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	11
Production
Running time	30 minutes (Season 1) 60 minutes (Season 2)
Production company	FremantleMedia Australia
Original release
Network	Nine Network
Release	30 October 2015 (2015-10-30) – 11 November 2016 (2016-11-11)
Related
Airport 24/7: Miami

The series takes viewers behind the scenes of operations at Australian airline Qantas, who funded the production of the program.^[3]

Series overview

Series	Episodes		Originally released
			First released	Last released
1	8		30 October 2015 (2015-10-30)	23 December 2015 (2015-12-23)
2	5		7 October 2016 (2016-10-07)	11 November 2016 (2016-11-11)

Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

No.	Title	Original release date	Australian viewers
1	"Episode 1"	30 October 2015 (2015-10-30)	459,000[4]
2	"Episode 2"	6 November 2015 (2015-11-06)	542,000[5]
3	"Episode 3"	13 November 2015 (2015-11-13)	536,000[6]
4	"Episode 4"	20 November 2015 (2015-11-20)	508,000[7]
5	"Episode 5"	2 December 2015 (2015-12-02)	702,000[8]
6	"Episode 6"	9 December 2015 (2015-12-09)	649,000[9]
7	"Episode 7"	16 December 2015 (2015-12-16)	573,000[10]
8	"Episode 8"	23 December 2015 (2015-12-23)	429,000[11]

Season 2 (2016)

No.	Title	Original release date	Australian viewers
1	"Episode 1"	7 October 2016 (2016-10-07)	404,000[12]
2	"Episode 2"	14 October 2016 (2016-10-14)	485,000[13]
3	"Episode 3"	21 October 2016 (2016-10-21)	423,000[14]
4	"Episode 4"	28 October 2016 (2016-10-28)	455,000[15]
5	"Episode 5"	11 November 2016 (2016-11-11)	414,000[16]

Broadcast

Internationally, the series airs in Ireland on TV3, debuting on 6 July 2016.^[17]

See also

• Airways, a similar 2009 series behind the scenes of Tiger Airways Australia.