Originally Posted by
De_flieger
Spot on. KRviator obviously hasn’t tried to get a bus to Mornington Island lately, or a train to Northern Peninsula. Two and a bit hours by plane, vs a couple of days by car if the roads are open to the Cape or a lot longer if they’re closed. The teachers arent going to spend days driving in and out, and the kids going to boarding school in Cairns can’t either. The doctors that fly in for a week or two at a time to provide the only GP service in the more remote towns wont be adding an extra two days onto their commute - or in the event they have to, the costs will be passed on to either the locals or the taxpayer.
The doctors who depend on Rex to allow them to deliver regional care
"Rachael Cordina is never surprised when she runs into another doctor at Sydney Airport doing the early morning dash to regional NSW, mostly on a Regional Express flight.The Sydney cardiologist heads to places like Dubbo and Port Macquarie once a month to run outreach clinics for patients with rare congenital heart problems and says airline Rex,
which went into voluntary administration on Tuesday, is critical to the provision of health services across Australia."
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/...31-p5jy3w.html