REX might have to shut down service for a little while after staff have pushed to ground the planes due to safety concerns.

And no, Caillou does not own the Airline. And he is not getting grounded by Boris for doing this.

It follows a 17 page report about the airline. About how unsafe it is.

One the faults noted by the staff has been connected to a emergency from one of the REX planes in Sydney.

What do you think?

REX might have to shut down service for a little while after staff have pushed to ground the planes due to safety concerns.

And no, Caillou does not own the Airline. And he is not getting grounded by Boris for doing this.

It follows a 17 page report about the airline. About how unsafe it is.

One the faults noted by the staff has been connected to a emergency from one of the REX planes in Sydney.

What do you think?

No idea what to think, without having a link to an article to read.

Darn it! I really do not know how to link the article. Looks like it is off to the inactive help fourm!

Try https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2019/06/30/rex-safety-concerns/

REX's margins have been under pressure for some time and if you look at their communications they're always looking for ways to complain about costs that they don't like, or subsidies that they dont receive.  Eg passenger screening costs, or en-route charge subsidies

They are privately owned (Singaporean) and so are very much about making profits and so this is to be expected.

Their routes are long (for the aircraft they use) and thin and many of them would be marginal.  Though they fit a niche that QantasLink cannot fill and seem to have reasonable prices.

They are known for being at the lower end of payers in the industry as they cannot afford it and so have a higher turnover as they loose people to VA and QF and others who can pay them more and offer better career progression.  And if people can't leave REX as the majors won't have them then that just breeds more disgruntlement.

IMO REX would be better off part of the VA group in many ways, though it has its own problems of course.  

Ill be watching the CASA story with interest though.

Thanks @allan for posting.

And @AheadMatthewawsome, thanks for raising this but the way you wrote about it had me thinking that this was a hoax/beatup.  Perhaps think about how you write a serious post so that it is taken seriously.

Rex fills those gaps in the route market which are not taken by QANTAS and Virgin for many reasons including passenger numbers.  Imagine if passenger rail was viable on some of these routes where Rex flies there might be more routes under pressure.  Australia is becoming more and more expensive to do business in and it is going to cost players at the lower end.

Maybe time to think about REX using secondary airports for traffic like Avalon?

More of the same... https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/rex-slams-claims-staff-were-bullied-out-of-raising-safety-concerns/news-story/79e177d2693737efc373d8d31e9bce58

The twice weekly flight from Quilpie to Brisbane, that I've used a few times originates at Mt Isa and is essentially a milk and mail run doesn't carry a lot of pax. I recall there being around 20 pax on the last flight I took just over a year ago.

Having said that, as I've reported in another thread, the Westlander travelling in the opposite direction would con