It began screening in July 2009 and was filmed in airports including Melbourne, Coolangatta, Rockhampton, Mackay, Adelaide, Launceston, Hobart and Alice Springs.
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.
[4][5] 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.
[6] 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.