They are clearly sheeting the blame home to increased costs attributable to the about to be imposed carbon tax/price.
That is the line that Abbott tried to run with at the top of Question Time yesterday.
Albo then came back with the more accurate position as per Spyderpig's post.
Albanese then assisted the house to understand that what Brindabella had done was ditch Armidale and Albury for richer pickings, rather than being brought to the brink of financial ruin by the the typical $1.50 one way carbon tax fare rise much more expensive airlines like Virgin Australia had been quoting, and also referred to an email from Brindabella confirming this.
He then threw in a reference to REX, the much larger regional turbo-prop operator, as saying that it was expanding into new regional routes, and was highly optimistic as to the future of rural aviation. (Sic em Rex?)
Crikey