Re: company housing. All regional bases supply accommodation. Older bases like Hedland, have plenty of company houses. Broome, being a new base, uses rentals. Jandakot is the only base that requires pilots to sort out their own housing.
Thanks, TQ. This information inspired me to redo my numbers. Rental in Broome is much cheaper than I first thought. The average seems to be around $500 pw. Redoing my numbers puts the total yearly outlay for the RFDS at about half a million (including all perks) for ALL the staff I estimate would be there due to the jet being based there (7-10 as stated above).
I hinted a few pages back that maybe not all patients get transferred to Perth.
There is no justification for transfers to Darwin from the Kimberley with the jet. The time saved is miniscule. The transfer from Kununurra for example, would take 45 minutes in the jet, versus 60 minutes in the PC-12. 60 and 96 from Halls Creek. And those patients would be already stabilised, thus reducing the need for expediency. No justification.