Nexus Airlines - WA regional airline
 

So does anyone have much information on this new company?

www.nexusairlines.com.au

Part of long running Kununurra company Aviair which is owned by HMC Group.

https://www.businessnewsaustralia.co...gional-wa.html

Slingair and BAS joined together to make Aviair what it is today.

The owner is well connected on a government level so will have significant funding thrown towards the intra state service. Services like what they are proposing wouldn’t be profitable without government support.

I assume the AOC process is well underway as that is a very tight timeframe until operations start, especially if it’s a Nexus AOC not adding more types onto Aviair.

They have been getting prepared for the last 12 months at least I believe

Owned by aviair. Known for the bonds they make pilots take. It will probably be around 1million dollars for a q400 with a 999year return of service. Pilots to clean plane after every flight

Would be good to see the Dash 8-400 at CVQ. But not sure the runway can handle an aircraft of that size? Currently CVQ has the Saab 340 (Rex) land there in terms of RPT flights

$422 from Geraldton to Karratha on the 10th of July.

SlingAir gets a Q400.. fark me

At it is right now, a Q400 can't go into carnarvon... Not without some form of pavement concession and probably an adjustment to the apron area.

Perth - Carnarvon is also a fully regulated route (So only one airline can provide that service as there isnt enough demand)

CVQ must have gone to the dogs because there were F-28s by the truckload going in there in the 70s and 80s. :}

It’s been seriously degraded for years. As I recall, there was talk of building a new airport to the north of the townsite about 10-15 years ago, but that was dropped in favour of a new runway and terminal to the east of the existing facilities. Meanwhile, nothing much has been done and the existing runway continues to be patched up every so often.

I think their plan is probably to get set up then bid for the other regulated routes off Rex. A Q400 can get into CVQ with a pavement concession from the council.

Advertising that they begin ops to Kununurra and Darwin in July.

Well given Kununurra is the base I guess, Kununurra to Darwin and return?

I will be fascinated to see their transition to RPT as it used to be known and how they will keep cabin crew based in Kununurra.

Good luck.

Raises the question as to where are the aircraft maintained and the operational base at the moment as Kununurra is not currently on the schedule, though they list a Kununurra number for contact.?

They took over BASs big Hangar in Broome so could be maintained there. I’d suspect somewhere in Perth as there’d be plenty of Dash Engineers down there - Cobham (NJE) maybe?

They've been advertising for Geraldton based engineers.

Makes sense to do,it in-house given they have a fleet of 6 coming

Like Qantas does…

https://australianaviation.com.au/20...x-reliability/

gearing up for a change