When a federal election is called, I believe the leader of the opposition gets equal time as the sitting PM in the use of Government aircraft.
From 'Flight Aware' we can assume:
Both the RAAF B737 BBJ's are doing the Morrison and Shorten schedule
The Challenger 604's are earning their keep
Opposition members are chartering a Challenger (VH-SCR) from Essendon operator
The first of three new Dassault Falcon 7X (A56-001) has been very busy.
Clive Palmer had his Global Express apparently re-possessed two years ago, and replaced by a Hawker 4000 (Cayman registered) and he still has his Citation X (Cayman registered) also based at Gold Coast. The two Minerology MD-80's are beyond redemption at BNE airport.
Members and would be minor functionaries and assorted underlings are chartering light GA twins in the electoral endeavours, shock horror 40 and 50 year old Navajo and Baron.
Alliance has been doing steady trade in the Fokker 100
I would imagine that Military choppers have been pressed into service for hard to reach area's
RAAF King Air 350's are also doing election duties
I wonder if the cost of election use of Govt. aircraft is tabled in Parliament once the game is over?
Last edited by Petropavlovsk; 2nd May 2019 at 12:46.
Reason: add aircraft type