Rex dropping routes, Pilot shortage or ticket sales.
While the boom is still going strong in WA, NSW & VIC are slipping into recession. Unemployment rising, taxes up, productivity down for most manufacturing operations and of course the drought.
Is it truley the crewing issues that are causing REX to abandon ALL of these routes. Not wanting to go into the 'pay and conditions' tangents, or is it more like ticket sales and profitability that may just be taking tole.
Things have changed over the last ten years for sure but is all the publicity over PILOT SHORTAGE in the eastern statesmore a tac to try and lure more lambs to THE OLD SLAUGHTER HOUSE of the Haso's days with promises of quick progression and big money
OR a hangover from the old days of, 'If in doubt, blame the pilots".
It seems too convenient to keep blaming the shortage such a public way. Perhaps is all true and the managment are just making the best of this bad situation by getting some free publicity when these press releases are let out in perhaps sensationalised ways.
Dose anyone have info on the 'bums on seats' of those routes as a % of capacity?
Just one of my many theorys.
Fett