Children with Disabilities and Underprivileged Children

This annual event involves a Qantas jet aircraft taking children and their carers on a 90 minute joy-flight over the Sydney-Newcastle-Wollongong area.
The children are physically or intellectually disadvantaged, suffering life threatening illnesses, come from homeless backgrounds or from circumstances where holidays are not possible.

The Rotary Club of Turramurra organizes the children, Qantas provides the aircraft, their staff (including pilots and crew) volunteer their time, and Qantas Pathfinders attend to the ticketing and ground support. Airport charges are waived by Sydney Airport Corporation Ltd and a fuel supplier generously donates the fuel.

The flight is usually held on a Saturday in November, departing from the Sydney Domestic Terminal. 2020 and 2021 flights were not held due to Covid-19.

Experience the joy of giving children a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Nominations for flights are open for 2024. 

The 2024 Joey Joy Flight will be held on Saturday 23rd November 2024. To nominate a child for a seat on the QANTAS Joey Joy Flight, download the Nomination Form. It will need to be emailed back to the specified address. A ''Permission to Use Image" form will also need to be signed and sent along with the nomination form.

Nominations will only be accepted only in digital format using the downloaded form. Hard copy and facsimile applications will not be accepted.

Nomination Booking Form  Click to download the nomination form   (PDF format)

Permission to Use Image Form Click to download the permission to use image form   (PDF format)

Thank you for your donation to the JOEY JOY FLIGHT (previously Jumbo Flight). These can be made in the following convenient ways.

Secure Online. Click here for easy quick secure online donations. 

Donations over $2 are tax deductable, a tax receipt will be automatically issued to you.

Cheque
Please make the cheque payable to: TURRAMURRA ROTARY FOUNDATION
Please send to address: Rotary Club of Turramurra, PO Box 77, Turramurra NSW 2074.

Contact the Rotary Club of Turramurra regarding the QANTAS Joey Joy Flight.

Seats on the Joey Joy Flight:
Please use the following email address for all contact relating to a seat on the Joey Joy flight.
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For donations and other non seat related contacts, please use the jumboflight email address below.

General Administration: - Donations, Friends of the Joey Joy (Jumbo) Flight

For donations, becoming a Friend of the Joey Joy Flight, and all general information and administration of the Joey Joy Flight (not relating to a seat for a child on the Joey Joy flight), please use the email address below. For all contact relating to a seat on the Joey Joy Flight, please use the seatsonjumbo email address above.

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The Joey Joy (previously Jumbo) Flight. Each year the Rotary Club of Turramurra organises a flight in a Qantas Jet for children who are very ill, who may be physically or intellectually disabled, sometimes are in wheelchairs or may come from backgrounds where holidays are not possible. These children would not normally be able to travel in an aircraft.

This project is one of the major projects Turramurra Rotary provides for the community. These flights represents an example of the work Rotary does around the globe to make the world a better place for our fellow human beings.