No
Stallie. In my books that's an "interposed entity". Same rules apply.
However for some reason CASA has always subtly differentiated between flights which depart point A and land at point B, from those which depart point A and return to land at the same point A. That seems to become a "scenic", although I can't find any reason in the Act or CAR's to diferentiate between a "scenic" and an air charter.
Chocks Away, I thought that was how some tourism scenics operated? Indeed, one CASA FOI once told me that acquatic and rotary wing tourist operations (for example, the fixed and rotary wing flights between Cairns, Green Island and Fitzroy Island, operating to a fixed schedule, available to persons generally, for an individual air fare - and advertised in the media) are not RPT as they don't operate from a fixed terminal!!!
What else could he say, when they are not operating from licensed aerodromes and are in single engine, VFR aircraft!
Some years ago, a UK
air charter company operating Boeing aircraft back loaded tourist flights between Australia and the UK. The tickets could be purchased in Australia by persons generally, the flight departed from Sydney International Terminal - a fixed terminal if ever there was one, over a specified route, to a fixed schedule - and a CASA employee told me it was a tourist charter!
Go figure!!!
My reasoning may be wrong - but I suspect CAR206 (1) (c) with respect to defining RPT operations, is nothing short of a load of mumbo jumbo cr@p which not even the regulator understands!