Some more info from an interesting conversation I had in the last few days with someone who should know:
- 2 operators interested in flights to Wudinna after ASA's pullout: Air South (pending AOC) and Emu Air (see below)
- Emu want to operate a ADL-WUD-Ceduna service 2x a day using B1900C. Apparently with the addition of this a/c to their AOC they have spread themselves a little thin and see this as a way to improving a/c utilisation. However they await what to them is an inevitable Kendell pullout out of Ceduna before starting (which now looks further and further away). They think that this service will be a money spinner as a 2 daily service will allow peak-time flights instead of irregular KD's middle of the day service which is dictated by other services to other destinations.
- ASA are in deep do-do and may fold soon. Cannot confirm this.
- ASA received a $40k per week subsidy to operate the adl-cvc-wud service which was halted after the change of govt. i find this amount hard to believe... pax deserted the service because of inconvenient schedules compared to WW flights as well as the added inconveniences of the domestic terminal (longer checkin, lost screwdriversets at security!) etc etc!!!