Ringbinder
I think that the statement about Our Airline being out of the air over XMAS may have something to do with their 737 having to complete a "C" check sometime soon.
Unless the reported second aircraft arrives soon, of course.
Also heard that Our Airline charted Ozjet to do their Norfolk - Gold Coast - Norfolk run today due to the unavailability of their own aircraft for the schedule.
That must have caused a little bit of embarrassment since today was only the 2nd flight that OA was scheduled to do on that run....but I am told that the decision to axe the Gold Coast run was made after the first one anyway.
Reliability from an single aircraft airline will always an issue, as Norfolk Air experienced that some months ago when they chartered Our Airline for other work.
Issues like this may just give a few more seats to SAW on the HIR run.