Photo: View from the office – Madigan Gulf, Lake Eyre North. Seen on every one or two-day tour to Lake Eyre from Rawnsley Park Station in the Flinders Ranges. Credit: Chinta Air/Felicity Brown (Pilot)

One Day Tour, ex Rawnsley Park / Flinders Ranges

Full Day Tour

Departs: 9.30am.

Please be at the Rawnsley Park Station airstrip at 9am.

Returns: 5pm (approximately)

Rates valid from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026
$1045 per person for 4 passengers,
$1140 per person for 3 passengers,
$1515 per person for 2 passengers.

Family rate: $3420 for 2 adults & 2 children (aged 3 – 13 years).

Private tour: $1370 per person for 3 people / $2035 per person for 2 people.

Includes:
After departure, the morning flight takes you over:

• Wilpena Pound & Ikara / Flinders Ranges National Park.
• Leigh Creek, both the town and coalfields.
• Marree Man, the largest geoglyph in Australia.
• Lake Eyre South and North.
• Lunch at William Creek Hotel (included).
• Includes lunch from menu, and a choice of tea / coffee, water / juice / soft drinks

After lunch, the afternoon flight includes:

• • Anna Creek, the largest cattle station in the world.
  • Andamooka
  • Lake Torrens

Optional Extras (must be requested at the time of booking:

Warburton Inlet: Fly to the Northern tip of the Lake for the best chance of seeing birdlife and to see if any water is flowing in to Lake Eyre / Kati Thanda from the Warburton Creek. Extra – $160 per person.

Painted Hills: Fly over the Painted Hills on Anna Creek Station (the Hills are not accessible by road).
Extra – $220 per person.

Note:
We are unable to welcome on board any passenger who weighs 130kgs or more.

Rates valid from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027
$1575 per person (flights depart with a minimum of two passengers.

Optional extra – Warburton Inlet: Fly to the Northern tip of the Lake for the best chance of seeing birdlife and to see if any water is flowing in to Lake Eyre / Kati Thanda from the Warburton Creek. Extra – $170 per person.

Painted Hills: Fly over the Painted Hills on Anna Creek Station (the Hills are not accessible by road).
Extra – $230 per person.

Family rate: $3560 for 2 adults & 2 children (aged 3 – 13 years).

Private tour: $2120 per person – flights depart with a minimum of two passengers.

Photo: The views from a Lake Eyre / Kati Thanda scenic flight, in 2018. Credit: SA Tourism Commission / Lachlan Swan, 2018

Chinta Air will not be offering a one day tour to Birdsville and the Channel Country from Ceduna in 2026.

Please check out

One day tours, departing from Rawnsley Park Station, on the South side of Wilpena Pound in the heart of South Australia’s Flinders Ranges.

Two day tours, departing from Ceduna, on South Australia’s Far West Coast.

Three day tours, departing from Adelaide.