“Love is in the Air” is an an inane and scenic romance from Australia, a “Hallmark Movie” is all but name.

This Netflix release is an old-fashioned “fish out of water” comedy that’s rarely comic, a city boy/gal from the bush rom-com that blows the “meet cute” and so glams up our tough lady pilot of the bush that she’s ready for a runaway, all right. Just not one that caters to small propeller planes.

Long review short, it’s a film built on a foolproof formula, in which the fools foul up the basics.

Delta Goodrem is Dana, who never shows up for a day at work at tiny, one-Cessna Fullteron Airways without perfect makeup, eyelashes, highlights and a daily blowout.

She’s a pilot always missing tourist charter appointments for “remote air support” pick ups and drop-offs, mail delivery and “emergencies, such as taking a snakebit dog from a remote sheep station to a vet.

That irks the boss, but as Jeff (Roy Billing) is her widowed Dad, there’ll be no complaining.

The sassy mechanic Nikki (Steph Tisdell) worries about their one-serviceable aircraft’s 50 year-old engine, and wishes Dana would get back together with the local hunk.

“You’ve gotta put your foot on the ground sometime, otherwise, life will fly right by you” is merely the first of the eye-rolling aviation puns that litter the script.

But Fullerton (not a real town, Whitsunday, Queensland was the main location) isn’t independently-owned. A hustling analyst with London’s ITCM Financial sees the operation is on their books, and well worth liquidating. Will (Joshua Sasse) tells the boss (Hugh Parker) this, and the boss — also his dad — sends him south, “to the ass-end of the world,” to check out the operation and make their move to close it down.

Considering that the plane ticket, etc., would just be more lost cash, you’d think they’d do that remotely. But no. Dad wants the lad to prove himself. Which Will proceeds to screw up, almost from the start.

A half-hearted attempt at mistaken identity at the airport, a hasty enlistment in “assisting” pilot Dana in some of her work, and Will is enchanted by the place, the seat-of-your-pants nature of the job and the flying, and smitten with the sassy Dana.

What that situation needs is sparks, a little friction. If you remember the tomboyish bush pilot Maggie of “Northern Exposure” you know how this is supposed to play. Beautiful or not, she’s too butch for the sissy city boy. But the sparks fly anyway.

That doesn’t happen here. Everything is watered-down, with any promising rough edges rubbed off. There’s little chemistry between the attractive leads. The “real reason” Will’s here is sure to get out. Even the third act “crisis” (a storm) is predictable and is plotted out in the least logical or interesting way imaginable.

A bit of attempted beach football (soccer) in a suit, a little cricket on the tarmac, a little slang — “Get a wiggle on!” “Oh my giddy aunt!” — a few puns, and a bit of coastal Queensland scenery is about all there is to the stale “Love is in the Air.”

Rating: TV-14, mild peril, profanity

Cast: Delta Goodrem, Joshua Sasse, Roy Billing, Hugh Parker and Steph Tisdell.

Credits: Direted by Adrian Powers, scripted by Katherine McPhee, Caera Bradshaw and Andrian Powers. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:28