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Former Rex chairman Lim Kim Hai in 2022.

Rex’s desperate hunt for $10 million before airline’s collapse

New documents show former executive chairman Lim Kim Hai described the airline’s sales as “bewilderingly bad” less than two months after Rex said it expected to make a profit.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey

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PAG has put new capital into Regional Express.

Can things get any worse for Australia’s third-biggest airline?

The federal government handed it an $80 million lifeline last month, but it should have imposed stricter conditions on Rex before handing over the money.

  • Elizabeth Knight
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ASIC briefed government about Rex investigation before $80m lifeline

The corporate regulator warned Treasurer Jim Chalmers it was investigating Regional Express for misleading conduct before the Commonwealth bailed out the collapsed airline.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Prime Minister and former transport minister Anthony Albanese has been criticised for being too close to Australia’s biggest airline, Qantas.

Qantas’ lions share of taxpayer-funded flights under the microscope

The government’s aviation white paper will review why more than 80 per cent of government bookings are made with one airline.

  • Amelia McGuire
Qantas and Jetstar make up 65 per cent of the airline industry in Australia.

Watchdog rules to help people ‘get what they pay for’ from airlines

The new charter of rights for airline customers is just one of 56 proposed reforms that will govern the nation’s aviation sector for decades to come.

  • Amelia McGuire
A Regional Express REX plane at Sydney’s domestic airport.

Government to guarantee Rex flight bookings for the next month

Transport Minister Catherine King has confirmed regional flights booked with Rex will be covered in a bid to keep the regional airline solvent.

  • Amelia McGuire
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Will Rex be the latest low-cost airline to disappear from the skies?

‘It ends up just being a bloodbath’: Why plucky, third player Rex Airlines came unstuck

A graveyard has filled with airline groups that have tried and failed to challenge the duopoly in the skies, from Compass to Tiger Airways and Bonza. Rex is just the latest.

  • Anne Hyland
Rex said its strategy had evolved since this presentation was circulated.

‘Large number’ of potential buyers circling Rex despite old fleet

EY partner Sam Freeman says he’s received a lot of early interest in Rex and is preparing to kick off the sales process as soon as next week.

  • Amelia McGuire
The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has blamed Rex’s business model for its failure while former competition tsar Rod Sims said years of policy failure is to blame.

Albanese lays blame on Rex as finger pointing heats up

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the regional routes that Rex provides must continue, but its decision to move into capital city services had been misguided.

  • Amelia McGuire
Cardiologist Rachael Cordina has set up clinics for congenital heart disease in regional areas like Dubbo and uses Rex to fly out to them once a month.

The doctors who depend on Rex to allow them to deliver regional care

Sydney cardiologist Rachael Cordina regularly does an early morning dash to regional NSW, usually on a Rex flight. Now country towns are worried after the airline went into administration.

  • Catherine Naylor

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