Any news on aircraft type? Interesting that Virgin flew an F100 from Adelaide to Orange, NSW and back over weekend. Orange is a major REX base. Were REX secretly checking out the aircraft with intentions of buying a few cheaply from Virgin administrators? The fact that REX announces a start date ...

There are a couple of things to think about here: 1) Rex already operates out of each of these capital cities to regional ports. They therefore already have staff and facilities in place. 2) REX still holds approval to operate jets dating back to when Kendell operated CRJs 3) REX can probably ...

With the reduction in services to Asia providing 18 spare aircraft, they now have no excuse for not starting international services out of smaller cities. Coronavirus is mainly affecting China services. Not affecting Euope or NZ! Qantas has consistently said shortage of aircraft was main reason t...

Qantas needs to go back to the pre- Emirates days and rebuild it's Singapore Hub which was so successful.The 3 787s Jetstar are planning on taking out of service could be used to start services quickly from Adelaide and Canberra to Singapore and onwards to Frankfurt and Paris. Passengers from oth...

One thing occurred to me. Qantas says Project Sunrise is about reducing the travel time between Eastern Australia and London and New York.Why then are they not asking the manufacturers for faster aircraft?Why are they not looking at super or hyper sonic aircraft?We had supersonic 50 years ago wi...