Regional Express Airlines enters voluntary administration, as all domestic flights that have operated between major cities with Boeing 737 airplanes within Australia have been canceled; but regional flight services are still operating as scheduled.
Regional Express Airlines Enters Voluntary Administration
The following message currently appears at the official Internet web site of Regional Express Airlines at the time this article was written:
IMPORTANT UPDATE
On Tuesday 30 July 2024 Regional Express Holdings Limited (Administrators Appointed) (ACN 099 547 270) and a number of its subsidiaries (ASX: REX) (the Rex Group) have entered voluntary administration.
Samuel Freeman, Justin Walsh and Adam Nikitins of Ernst & Young Australia (EY Australia) have been appointed Joint and Several Administrators by the Rex Group’s respective Boards of Directors.
** All regional planes are still flying as scheduled. **
** All Rex domestic flights between major cities are cancelled. **Virgin Australia has made an offer for Rex customers with an existing ticket on a flight cancelled due to the Administration process the opportunity to transfer their ticket free of charge to the 13 overlapping Virgin Australia services.
Eligible Rex customers who wish to take up Virgin Australia’s rebooking offer, must contact the Virgin Australia Guest Contact Centre on 13 67 89 or visit www.virginaustralia.com by Wednesday 14 August 2024.
Eligible customers will be re-accommodated on Virgin Australia flights as close as practicable to their original time of travel. Holders of affected tickets should not come to the airport until they have rebooked their flights.
The flight routes that are affected are as follows:
- Melbourne (MEL) – Adelaide (ADL)
- Melbourne (MEL) – Canberra (CBR)
- Melbourne (MEL) – Brisbane (BNE)
- Melbourne (MEL) – Coolangatta, Gold Coast (OOL)
- Melbourne (MEL) – Hobart (HBA)
- Melbourne (MEL) – Sydney (SYD)
- Melbourne (MEL) – Perth (PER)
- Sydney (SYD) – Brisbane (BNE)
- Sydney (SYD) – Coolangatta, Gold Coast (OOL)
- Sydney (SYD – Adelaide (ADL)
- Brisbane (BNE) – Adelaide (ADL)
- Adelaide (ADL) – Perth (PER)
- Brisbane (BNE) – Cairns (CNS)
Final Boarding Call
Customers who are impacted by this situation can rebook flights with Virgin Australia free of charge by contacting Virgin Australia before 5:00 in the afternoon on Wednesday, August 14, 2024. Failure to do so will render the tickets null and void.
The commercial aviation market in Australia is among the most difficult in the world in which to operate, as many airlines over the decades have failed. Qantas Airways is one of the only airlines in Australia which has not entered into voluntary administration or has been taken over by another airline.
I actually looked at flying as a passenger aboard an airplane which was operated by Regional Express Airlines earlier this year; but the schedules did not work out for me.
I might have dodged a bullet…
All photographs ©2024 by Brian Cohen.
