Originally Posted by
Saintly
Agreed. Quite simply.....REX haven't planned for the future and its caught up. You'd think in the mid to late 2000s even up to 2010 or up to 2015 Rex might have thought to themselves "We should start thinking about life after the Saabs".
They did think about it mate. They were in discussions with ATR when along came Covid and the Administration of VA. Then some bright spark deduced that the “future” lay in a domestic jet operation, filling the void left by a soon to be liquidated Virgin.
Not only did they shelve plans for the turboprop fleet replacement, but they actively (some might say criminally) neglected the regional operation to the point that it is now a corroded shell of what it once was.
Yep, these are the people that Air T, EY, and the Federal Government have entrusted to overseeing the rebuilding of REX.
Good luck with that!