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Rex airlines to challenge ‘fare gouging’ Qantas on Sydney-Canberra route by offering low-cost tickets
Regional airline operator Rex will begin flights between Canberra and Sydney from next month, ending Qantas’s monopoly on the route and accusing the company of fare gouging.
Key points:
- Rex Airlines will commence flights between Sydney and Canberra next month
- The airline’s deputy chairman is promising cheap airfares to undercut Qantas’s “fare gouging”
- Qantas has been the only service flying from Canberra to Sydney during the COVID-19 pandemic
Rex today announced it would run seven flights between the cities per day from April 19 and would expand that to 10 if “patronage is good”.
The route has more than one milllion annual passengers and is popular among politicians and bureaucrats, but has been monopolised by Qantas during the…
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