Rex’s regional rivals eye an opportunity to expand into key routes

Some of the country’s smallest carriers see the collapse of their larger rival, Regional Express, as an opportunity, pushing for federal and state governments not to bail out the collapsed airline better known as Rex and instead hand over lucrative routes.

Nexus Airlines, which flies a limited number of routes around Western Australia and has bid against Rex for some government-protected and subsidised services, said it would happily take over the operations of some of those flights.