REX to transition to ATRs, start domestic jet ops
That’s the point, Guptar. The majors can sell seats at a loss a lot longer than Rex can. And can refuse to interline baggage. And can tie them up by employing an army of angels to subtly shape opinions on social media. The majors can also manipulate travel agents (admittedly a smaller force these days) They can do many other tricks, large and small, to make Rex become a distant fourth choice when the punters choose an airline.
The rationale for Jetstar was to block any new LCC carrier from establishing itself at the cheap end of the market. Guess how merciless Qantas and Bain will be in the mid-market segment?
Rex is already bleating about Qantas deploying Dash-8s on their previously monopoly routes. That is just the first salvo in a needless market share war that Rex declared.
As has been previously mentioned, their fixed costs are starting to be locked in yet the virus may prevent any meaningful revenue offset for quite a few months yet, You cannot help the timing of that, but it has been a known odds-on possibility for about a year now.
Finally...a small fleet is its own risk: Look what happened to Tiger's reputation when their small fleet prevented service recovery after wx and mx disruptions. People are indeed price sensitive, but they are also smart enough to know when a $10 savings can cost them a day of vacation somewhere. Or to miss that wedding or other significant event.
Anyway...I have been in the industry a lot longer than thirty years, and I am aware that the ratio of failed airlines to remaining ones is probably approaching 50:1. It’s a mug's game.
The rationale for Jetstar was to block any new LCC carrier from establishing itself at the cheap end of the market. Guess how merciless Qantas and Bain will be in the mid-market segment?
Rex is already bleating about Qantas deploying Dash-8s on their previously monopoly routes. That is just the first salvo in a needless market share war that Rex declared.
As has been previously mentioned, their fixed costs are starting to be locked in yet the virus may prevent any meaningful revenue offset for quite a few months yet, You cannot help the timing of that, but it has been a known odds-on possibility for about a year now.
Finally...a small fleet is its own risk: Look what happened to Tiger's reputation when their small fleet prevented service recovery after wx and mx disruptions. People are indeed price sensitive, but they are also smart enough to know when a $10 savings can cost them a day of vacation somewhere. Or to miss that wedding or other significant event.
Anyway...I have been in the industry a lot longer than thirty years, and I am aware that the ratio of failed airlines to remaining ones is probably approaching 50:1. It’s a mug's game.
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Anyway...I have been in the industry a lot longer than thirty years, and I am aware that the ratio of failed airlines to remaining ones is probably approaching 50:1. It’s a mug's game.
100% correct but if we didn’t have dreamers and people willing to roll the dice and give it a go, we’d end up having an Aeroflot or worse, an Air Koryo of the South Pacific........ oh wait.
This is why I feel the need to support new starters until they prove themselves unworthy.
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Just had an email from Jetstar re a sale.
Looked at 1 March SYD/MEL/SYD & Jetstar are doing $49 each way & nonstop 13 flights in each direction.
Not sure how many SYD/MEL/SYD nonstops in each direction, JQ used to do, but must have been around 5 or 6 last time I looked.
Looked at 1 March SYD/MEL/SYD & Jetstar are doing $49 each way & nonstop 13 flights in each direction.
Not sure how many SYD/MEL/SYD nonstops in each direction, JQ used to do, but must have been around 5 or 6 last time I looked.
That’s the point, Guptar. The majors can sell seats at a loss a lot longer than Rex can. And can refuse to interline baggage. And can tie them up by employing an army of angels to subtly shape opinions on social media. The majors can also manipulate travel agents (admittedly a smaller force these days) They can do many other tricks, large and small, to make Rex become a distant fourth choice when the punters choose an airline.
The rationale for Jetstar was to block any new LCC carrier from establishing itself at the cheap end of the market. Guess how merciless Qantas and Bain will be in the mid-market segment?
Rex is already bleating about Qantas deploying Dash-8s on their previously monopoly routes. That is just the first salvo in a needless market share war that Rex declared.
As has been previously mentioned, their fixed costs are starting to be locked in yet the virus may prevent any meaningful revenue offset for quite a few months yet, You cannot help the timing of that, but it has been a known odds-on possibility for about a year now.
Finally...a small fleet is its own risk: Look what happened to Tiger's reputation when their small fleet prevented service recovery after wx and mx disruptions. People are indeed price sensitive, but they are also smart enough to know when a $10 savings can cost them a day of vacation somewhere. Or to miss that wedding or other significant event.
Anyway...I have been in the industry a lot longer than thirty years, and I am aware that the ratio of failed airlines to remaining ones is probably approaching 50:1. It’s a mug's game.
The rationale for Jetstar was to block any new LCC carrier from establishing itself at the cheap end of the market. Guess how merciless Qantas and Bain will be in the mid-market segment?
Rex is already bleating about Qantas deploying Dash-8s on their previously monopoly routes. That is just the first salvo in a needless market share war that Rex declared.
As has been previously mentioned, their fixed costs are starting to be locked in yet the virus may prevent any meaningful revenue offset for quite a few months yet, You cannot help the timing of that, but it has been a known odds-on possibility for about a year now.
Finally...a small fleet is its own risk: Look what happened to Tiger's reputation when their small fleet prevented service recovery after wx and mx disruptions. People are indeed price sensitive, but they are also smart enough to know when a $10 savings can cost them a day of vacation somewhere. Or to miss that wedding or other significant event.
Anyway...I have been in the industry a lot longer than thirty years, and I am aware that the ratio of failed airlines to remaining ones is probably approaching 50:1. It’s a mug's game.
People need to 'Get Real' as the airline business is commercial warfare and the Marquis of Queensbury Rules don't apply!
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Just had an email from Jetstar re a sale.
Looked at 1 March SYD/MEL/SYD & Jetstar are doing $49 each way & nonstop 13 flights in each direction.
Not sure how many SYD/MEL/SYD nonstops in each direction, JQ used to do, but must have been around 5 or 6 last time I looked.
Looked at 1 March SYD/MEL/SYD & Jetstar are doing $49 each way & nonstop 13 flights in each direction.
Not sure how many SYD/MEL/SYD nonstops in each direction, JQ used to do, but must have been around 5 or 6 last time I looked.
Another day, another BNEA320 alias. Why??? 
Just had an email from Jetstar re a sale.
Looked at 1 March SYD/MEL/SYD & Jetstar are doing $49 each way & nonstop 13 flights in each direction.
Not sure how many SYD/MEL/SYD nonstops in each direction, JQ used to do, but must have been around 5 or 6 last time I looked.
Looked at 1 March SYD/MEL/SYD & Jetstar are doing $49 each way & nonstop 13 flights in each direction.
Not sure how many SYD/MEL/SYD nonstops in each direction, JQ used to do, but must have been around 5 or 6 last time I looked.
Just had an email from Jetstar re a sale.
Looked at 1 March SYD/MEL/SYD & Jetstar are doing $49 each way & nonstop 13 flights in each direction.
Not sure how many SYD/MEL/SYD nonstops in each direction, JQ used to do, but must have been around 5 or 6 last time I looked.
Looked at 1 March SYD/MEL/SYD & Jetstar are doing $49 each way & nonstop 13 flights in each direction.
Not sure how many SYD/MEL/SYD nonstops in each direction, JQ used to do, but must have been around 5 or 6 last time I looked.
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Can only see the headline. I wouldn’t expect anything else from this mob and the gov will let them do it as they let them get away with everything else. I hope LKH has access to deep pockets he will need it what’s happening in SY now will happen again Maybe NSW or it maybe be VIC next time.
Does someone have a subscription who can post the story?
Rex Airlines seeking to employ overseas pilots to fly domestic routes
Rex Airlines is seeking to employ non-Australian pilots to fly domestic routes despite many local pilots not having jobs thanks to the pandemic.John Rolfe
Regional airline REX will suspend three routes as part of a 45 per cent reduction in capacity. The company was tipped to reduce services by 25 per cent after…Rapidly expanding airline Regional Express could *recruit foreign pilots for its new routes from Sydney to Melbourne and Brisbane despite 40 per cent of local captains and first officers still being out of work.
The Singapore-controlled airline is currently seeking dozens of pilots to fly the six 737s it is adding to its fleet.
Using a labour agreement the Department of Home *Affairs granted before the rise of coronavirus and fall of *Virgin Australia, Rex is able to recruit from overseas using “Temporary Skills Shortage” visas — the new name for 457s.
While it has yet to employ any pilots on TSS visas, it won’t rule out doing so.
“Rex has no foreign pilots recruited for its current operations,” a spokesman told The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday.Rex shares have soared by 300 per cent since March — to their highest level since 2007 — as investors back its bid to become a fully-fledged domestic airline.
Meanwhile, the Australian Federation of Air Pilots is calling for a ban on bringing in foreigners. In a new submission to a Senate inquiry into the future of local aviation after COVID-19, the union says “the federal government should ensure that Australian citizens and residents are provided the priority to re-enter Australian employment opportunities and that operators should not be able to bring in temporary foreign labour”.
REX is looking for foreign pilots to fly domestic routes. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy PiperFederation president Louise Pole told The Daily Telegraph that a recent survey it conducted among 1000 members found 40 per cent had been forced to find work outside the industry — hopefully only temporarily. Rex deputy chairman John Sharp, a transport minister in the Howard government, de*fended the airline’s need for “flexibility”.Rex had invested $45-50 million in two training facilities only to have graduates “pilfered” by larger carriers, he said.
In 2008 Rex lost half of its pilots in three months to Qantas, Virgin and Emirates, he added. “If anyone gets any kudos for giving Australians a chance in this industry, it’s Rex,” he said.
Qantas and Virgin hadn’t trained any pilots.
Rex Deputy Chairman and former federal transport minister John Sharp. Picture: AAP Image/Mick TsikasThere had been times when Rex faced not having a captain for scheduled sectors, which meant it had to combine flights.“It is still necessary for us to access pilots from overseas in times of shortage,” Mr Sharp said.
The labour agreement also covers engineers and *instructors.
Mr Sharp said foreign workers made up less than 10 per cent of Rex’s 1150-strong workforce, which was set to grow by 400. “We are adding people rather than making them redundant” like other airlines, he said.
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I’m guessing the theory behind this is, they will employ them on different contract paying them same as a SAAB skipper. That can be the only rational to this. Big daddy McCormack will give Sharpie the nod to this.
Well there goes Jan. First half of Feb looking risky. Going to be tight. These two Labor premiers will be holding them by the balls for as long as possible.
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It's obvious to all what's going on.
Major glut of pilots. Those who want work will have to work for less.
There's going to be fireworks on SYD/MEL come March or end of Feb when business types start booking their March business trips.
It's all about costs & airlines have to keep them low or go belly up. Qantas isn't immune now that new Virgin has much lower costs.
Going to get interesting in about 60 days time.