Regional Express Group (Rex) has revealed that it has submitted a response to the Request for Information (RFI) issued by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) as a precursor to Rex\u2019s intention to be the next aerial operator of the Australian Antarctic Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Program is the most ambitious ever in AAD\u2019s history and looks at bringing together all the highly specialised aerial operations under one operator\u2019s command. The Program calls for significantly expanded capabilities comprising one large intercontinental passenger jet capability, four intracontinental turbo-prop aircraft able to operate on skis, four twin-engine\u00a0helicopters which can operate both on land and on the Division\u2019s flagship the RSV Nuyina,\u00a0plus a significant scaling up of Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) capability for the Division\u2019s\u00a0operations during the Antarctic Austral Summer (October to March).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recognising the unique challenges of operating in the Antarctic environment, Rex has assembled an Antarctic Advisory Panel (AAP) comprising the foremost experts in this field with in-depth and practical knowledge of actual aerial operations to the Antarctic as well as design expertise on adapting aerial platforms with skis suitable for landing on unprepared terrain on the Antarctic Continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The AAP has guided Rex\u2019s response to the RFI and will spend the next five months preparing the optimal solution ahead of the Request for Tender expected in November this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rex intends to lead a consortium of industry partners that will operate some aspects of the Program that require more specialised expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rex <\/strong>is Australia\u2019s largest independent regional and domestic airline operating a fleet of 58 Saab 340 and 7 Boeing 737-800NG aircraft to 57 destinations throughout all states in Australia. In addition to the airline Rex, the Rex Group comprises wholly owned subsidiaries Pel-Air Aviation (air freight, aeromedical and charter operator), the Australian Airline Pilot organisation, Australian Aerospace Propeller Maintenance. Rex is also a 50% shareholder of National Jet Express (NJE), a premier Fly-In-Fly-Out (FIFO), charter and freight operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Regional Express Group (Rex) has revealed that it has submitted a response to the Request\u00a0for Information (RFI) issued by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) as a precursor to Rex\u2019s\u00a0intention to be the next aerial operator of the Australian Antarctic Program.<\/p>\n Rex intends to be aerial operator for Australian Antarctic Division<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8637,10174,797,4813,3965,7890,9181,89,5637,13618,8222,5992,5670,2203,5500,4957,5676,8651,10355,10169,10195,10171,868,10182,1103],"tags":[9442,45,13369,15356,1052,6375,539,464,420,6368,15352,1480,876,160,4953,41,2038,2258,1140,1844,1635,1277,2283,913,168,575,1483,688,745,1371,2366,9196,2479,672,589,1898,2792,4934,843,718,2403,15227,15355,2899,2295,1685,15357,4364,2169,3260,1089,5694,7255,15353,15354,1506,987,10531,1993,2132,1634,1177,3259,5018,4932,9357],"class_list":["post-11834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-cargo-news","category-airline","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-airport-news","category-asia-news","category-australia-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-communications-news","category-consumer-news","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-finance-news","category-frequent-flyer-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-joint-venture-news","category-diversity","category-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","category-travel","category-travel-news","tag-9442","tag-45","tag-737-800","tag-8-400","tag-aerial","tag-aeromedical","tag-air","tag-aircraft","tag-airline","tag-ambulance","tag-antarctic","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-aviation","tag-beechcraft","tag-boeing","tag-contracts","tag-dash","tag-de-havilland","tag-defence","tag-department","tag-division","tag-domestic","tag-e190","tag-embraer","tag-express","tag-fleet","tag-government","tag-group","tag-helicopters","tag-history","tag-independent","tag-information","tag-intercontinental","tag-jet","tag-jets","tag-king","tag-missions","tag-national","tag-new","tag-ng","tag-nje","tag-nuyina","tag-operating","tag-operator","tag-passenger","tag-pc24","tag-pilatus","tag-program","tag-prop","tag-regional","tag-request","tag-rex","tag-rfi","tag-rsv","tag-saab","tag-services","tag-skis","tag-south","tag-special","tag-state","tag-system","tag-turbo","tag-uas","tag-victoria","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11836,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11834\/revisions\/11836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}