Pacific Air Express was an airline based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

[4][5] The airline was established in 1993 by Australian expatriate Gary Clifford (Managing Director/CEO) and a business partner from the Solomon Islands.

[4] In 2021 its wet lease agreement with Qantas Freight on the Melbourne to Perth route ended, being replaced with Express Freighters Australia Airbus A321-200P2Fs.

In October 2021 the airline's final aircraft (a Boeing 757-200 registered VH-PQA) left Australia.

[6] The airline owns a second Boeing 757-200 (registration N314ST, msn 22211) but it remains in storage in Budapest, having never actually flown to Australia.