Tamair in the late eighties went from a charter operator to RPT between Tamworth and Sydney utilising Metro 111 aircraft, running up to 7 flights a day. Around 1995, Tamair bought into Airlines of Tasmania and took over their routes using one Metro and some Navajos. AOT retained the RFDS contract using two Piper Mojave aircraft. For a while, Brederick used Tamair's AOC, but eventually AOT took the Metro onto its AOC. Tamair was trading very well out of Tamworth and was strongly supported by the locals. Unfortunately, the Metro night training accident, killing two trainees out of the three crew lost Tamair the local trade, picked up by Eastern. With the badly run AOT losing large amounts,it drained Tamair to its final extinction even after CASA had shut down AOT on bad management and safety concerns.