Regional Express (Rex) subsidiaries Australian Airline Pilot Academy (AAPA) and Pel Air are not involved in the voluntary administration of airline operations announced yesterday.
Rex Group directors have appointed Ernst and Young Australia as Joint and Several Voluntary Administrators, but the administration is limited to the airline and investment arms of Regional Express Holdings, which does not include AAPA and Pel Air.
Flight training organisation AAPA, which has bases at Wagga Wagga and Ballarat, will continue to operate as normal. The academy uses Warriors, Seminoles, C172s and King Airs to train pilots for careers in the airlines, with a cadet program fast track to Rex SAAB operations.
Pel Air is a charter/aeromedical operation that flies Westwinds, King Airs and SAAB 340s out of bases in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
Rex has ceased operations into the major airports, but services on subsidised regional routes will continue for the moment.
Rex expanded from regional SAAB 340 operations into B737 services on trunk routes in March 2021, and only recently added Perth and Adelaide to its destinations.
Fly-in, Fly-out (FIFO) operation National Jet Express is also thought to be not involved in the voluntary administration.