Rex Airlines has announced it has gone into voluntary administration and cancelled all flights between major airports.
Rex’s website showed no available flights between the capital cities from Wednesday, with passengers advised they could rebook with Virgin at no extra cost. All regional planes are still flying as scheduled, but no New England centre is affected.
Rex’s Sydney to Armidale service was suspended last year claiming a shortage of pilots and parts, with promised they would return at the end of March. The suspension was a few short months after Armidale Regional Council refurbished the airport to allow the airline to operate without gate security.
Then in February, they said they were not going to return services until at least October, blaming supply chain issues from Covid-19. When strongly criticised for breaking their promise by former MP Adam Marshall, who questioned the sincerity of their claims, the airline vowed to ‘put Armidale last‘ in any future resumption of services.
It would appear from this week’s events that Marshall may have been right to question the airline’s excuses.
A statement posted on Rex’s website on Tuesday said Regional Express Holdings…