Events back in 2007 have led Rex to where they are now. That's when they decided they owned staff and didn't have to work with their employees to achieve a better workplace. Since then instead of real expansion the airline has generated profits from cost cutting and cherry picking subsidies, none of which are solid long term business plans for a company which main focus should have been its traditional regional customers. Instead their heart in the country is now being picked apart by QLink adding to their major competitors profit and expansion/upgrades. I could probably point directly at 3 or 4 major years in history where regional patronage was booming only to be stymied by a lack of staff, mainly pilots, leading to a loss of reliability and passengers jumping ship or driving. So even thugh Rex has been profitable in the past they could have been exponentialy more successful had they not hit these management induced speed humps.