Government Provides $80 Million Lifeline to Struggling Regional Airline Rex

Rex Airlines will continue to fly across multiple remote, and regional routes.

Regional Express Airlines now wearing REX livery over the ex US Airways Express, Saab 340B at Wagga Wagga Airport on Oct. 30, 2016.

The federal Labor government will prop up the struggling Rex Airlines to the tune of $80 million (US$52 million) in an effort to keep the regional icon flying.

In a statement on Nov. 12, Transport Minister Catherine King and Workplace Minister Murray Watt announced the funding would be necessary as the government continued working on longer term solutions.