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Old 2nd June 2021, 12:49 PM
James Smith James Smith is offline
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I came across an article in Simple Flying from 12 May, 2021 with John Sharpe giving a discussion on the performance of REX's jet services. He says that the best performing route is MEL-ADL and the following quote regarding acquiring additional jets is from the article:

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“We’re planning to bring another four 737s into our system over the next few months. We see the demand for that. We see the need for that because we see opportunities to develop more routes in our network. But we can’t do that without those extra aircraft.”

Rex’s current six Boeing 737-800s are former leased Virgin Australia aircraft. The additional four Boeings will also be former Virgin Australia planes. Rex reportedly negotiated an excellent deal for its first tranche of Boeings. No doubt they’ll wring as much value as they can out of the second round of Boeings coming into the fleet.
If the next four REX B738s are coming from ex-Virgin planes, in my view this only leaves potentially six B738s available, being VUA, VOQ, VOS from the ex-Virgin fleet and VOR, VUB, VUD from the Tiger fleet. At a stretch they could acquire ex-Virgin VUI and VUJ from GYR which as N341CG and N343CG haven't moved since arriving there in December, 2020.

It will be interesting to see which aircraft are chosen.

Source: Simple Flying https://simpleflying.com/rex-orders-...box=1620797820
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