{"id":356513,"date":"2026-07-09T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/airline\/rex-2-0-can-air-t-make-it-work\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:12:05","slug":"rex-2-0-can-air-t-make-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=356513","title":{"rendered":"Rex 2.0: Can Air T make it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>Yeah I know, another Rex thread. The others are all about the wreckage though &#8211; this one&#8217;s about what happens next.<\/p>\n<p> The short version: Air T took the keys 18 Dec, $172.5m plus a promised $50m top-up, government still holding security over the fleet with strings attached. Stated plan is &quot;return to Classic Rex&quot; &#8211; whole Saab fleet back in the air.<\/p>\n<p> Six months in and it&#8217;s going the other way. Melbourne\u2013Devonport and KI\u2013Burnie gone from 20 June, Mildura cut from 24 to 19 returns, and Orange has lost its morning and evening stops until mid August &#8211; &quot;winter weather&quot;, apparently. The Saabs are all pushing 30+, but Air T owns Kingman with a pile of stored 340s and the parts\/MRO businesses to match. That&#8217;s obviously why they bought the thing. Does it actually fix the economics of flying geriatric Saabs? No replacement type announced. These blokes have never run a passenger airline &#8211; FedEx feeders and de-icing trucks, yes, Aussie RPT, no.<\/p>\n<p> Clever play on paper. But clever and profitable aren&#8217;t the same thing, and so far the network&#8217;s shrinking.<\/p>\n<p> Anyone seeing real change yet? There don&#8217;t seem to be any more SAABs in the air. Or a few more years before it all goes bad?\n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah I know, another Rex thread. The others are all about the wreckage though &#8211; this one&#8217;s about what happens next. The short version: Air T took the keys 18 Dec, $172.5m plus a promised $50m top-up, government still holding security over the fleet with strings attached. 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