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From turboprops to third force: Rex’s ‘bold move’ to shake up Australian aviation – Sydney Morning Herald
From an office in Singapore, Lim Kim Hai has waited out the COVID-19 pandemic engineering the biggest shake-up of Australia’s airline industry in two decades. Can…
But like many things, COVID-19 has changed everything. This week the Civil Aviation Safety Authority approved Rex to start flying Boeing 737 jets around Australia. Tickets are on sale for its first passenger service between Sydney and Melbourne on March 1 next year.
Peter Harbison, from the aviation consultancy CAPA Centre for Aviation, says Rexs move is likely to be one of the most significant shake-ups to the domestic airline market since Qantas launched 100 years ago.
People will say, oh theres…
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