Who owns Flight Centre?
Flight Centre is owned by Flight Centre Travel Group (Australia, ASX: FLT).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Flight Centre Travel Group FY25 Appendix 4E and Annual Report, Flight Centre Travel Group Limited, 27 August 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Flight Centre Travel Group Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇦🇺 Australia, Brisbane
- Origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia, Sydney
- Founded
- 1982
- Category
- Internet & digital › Online travel › Online travel agencies
- Parent ticker
- ASX: FLT
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Flight Centre
Flight Centre is the flagship leisure travel retail brand of Flight Centre Travel Group. Its history page says the first store, Sydney Flight Centre, opened on 29 March 1982, with Melbourne and Brisbane stores following within months. The group's brands page describes it as aimed at the mass market and present in five countries.
Ownership timeline of Flight Centre
- Current owner Flight Centre Travel Group [1] reported
Where Flight Centre sits in Flight Centre Travel Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Open the full Flight Centre Travel Group ownership tree →
See the full Flight Centre Travel Group brand portfolio (5) →
Other brands owned by Flight Centre Travel Group
Flight Centre Travel Group controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in online travel agencies, and who owns them
The 40 brands in online travel agencies on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Expedia Group, with 7; Flight Centre Travel Group has 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| CheapTickets | Expedia Group | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Bravofly | lastminute.com Group | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Agoda | Booking Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
| eDreams | eDreams ODIGEO | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Goibibo | MakeMyTrip | 🇮🇳 India |
| Kurz Mal Weg | HomeToGo | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg |
| Ctrip | Trip.com Group | 🇨🇳 China |
| Cozmo Travel | Air Arabia | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates |
About the owner: Flight Centre Travel Group
Flight Centre Travel Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Brisbane, Australia. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as ASX: FLT.
Flight Centre Travel Group is a Brisbane-headquartered travel retailer that its own site says operates 30-plus brands in leisure, corporate and supply businesses across Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, South Africa, India, Asia, the UAE and Mexico. It also licenses its name in a further 90 countries. Its history page dates the first Flight Centre store to 1982 and its ASX listing to 1995. Its other brands, such as Scott Dunn, Aunt Betty and BYOjet, are left off this list because no document it published states their origin.
Flight Centre Travel Group: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇦🇺 Flight Centre and other Australian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 203 brands that began in Australia. 59 of them (29%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Flight Centre is not one of them.
- 7plus — Southern Cross Media Group 🇦🇺
- 9Now — Nine 🇦🇺
- Afterpay — Block 🇺🇸
- Domain — CoStar 🇺🇸
- Flatmates.com.au — REA Group 🇦🇺
- Google Maps — Alphabet 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Flight Centre?
The parent company of Flight Centre is Flight Centre Travel Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in Australia.
Is Flight Centre Australian?
Yes. Flight Centre originated in Australia in 1982 and its owner, Flight Centre Travel Group, is also headquartered in Australia.
Is Flight Centre still owned by Flight Centre Travel Group?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Flight Centre is still owned by Flight Centre Travel Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Flight Centre Travel Group FY25 Appendix 4E and Annual Report — Flight Centre Travel Group Limited, Annual report, published 27 August 2025; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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