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SYDNEY Australian airline Regional Express Holdings Ltd (Rex) is not doing as well as it would like on the highly competitive Sydney-Melbourne route, where it is offering A$39 ($30.38) fares on most flights, its deputy chairman said on Wednesday.
The once regional airline in March expanded into big-city routes to compete against Qantas Airways Ltd and Virgin Australia taking advantage of cut-priced aircraft leases, starting with one of the world’s busiest domestic routes from Sydney to Melbourne.
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Regional Express Holdings Ltd (Rex) said on Monday it would start flights to Adelaide and Australia‘s Gold Coast by April 1 as it begins to challenge Qantas Airways Ltd and Virgin Australia on the country’s big-city routes.
The airline’s first Melbourne-Sydney flights are planned for Monday morning, at a time when domestic air traffic remains low due to the pandemic.
Rex had previously planned to launch Sydney-Brisbane flights next to add a second route highly popular with business travellers, but it said it would instead launch the more leisure-oriented Melbourne-Adelaide, Sydney-Gold Coast and Melbourne-Gold Coast routes in time for the Easter long weekend in early April.
SYDNEY (Feb 28): Regional Express Holdings Ltd (Rex) has said on Monday it would start flights to Adelaide and Australia s Gold Coast by April 1 as it begins to challenge Qantas Airways Ltd and Virgin Australia on the country s big-city routes.
The airline s first Melbourne-Sydney flights are planned for Monday morning, at a time when domestic air traffic remains low due to the pandemic.
Rex had previously planned to launch Sydney-Brisbane flights next to add a second route highly popular with business travellers, but it said it would instead launch the more leisure-oriented Melbourne-Adelaide, Sydney-Gold Coast, and Melbourne-Gold Coast routes in time for the Easter long weekend in early April.