A very logical press release from a management that is desperately trying to save their airline.
AOPA's comments were about CASA's handling of the issue, not about REX's guilt or otherwise. Nowhere did AOPA call for REX to be grounded or hold out that the substance of the report is fact. AOPA just pointed out that in the same circumstances CASA would treat a small business very differently.
Their treatment of Glen Buckley's APTA is possibly the best example in the public sphere at the moment. AOPA knows of several other operators who have similarly received show cause notices from CASA for operating their business in a manner that was formulated with the direct involvement and approval of CASA staff.
Rex really can't blame AOPA for this ****fight.