Traffic #394 | 737 movements and the RAAF’s first Triton

VA’s revenge: Virgin snatches back Rex 737s

In a wild reversal of fortune, Virgin Australia has confirmed it will take over the lease of three former Rex Boeing 737s, after the latter regional airline entered voluntary administration overnight on 31 July. Administrators saw to it that Rex immediately ceased all flying and revealed that they would offload the airline’s entire 737 fleet, with Virgin quickly stepping up to say it would take three jets.

If this story sounds a tad familiar, it could be because not yet five years ago, all the same players had a hand in a nearly identical situation – only the shoe was on the other foot. A mere months after an embattled Virgin Australia entered voluntary administration in April 2020, it emerged that Rex would be taking claim of up to 10 former Virgin 737s to scale up its operations from regional to mainline domestic, plugging the expected gap in the market by flying between capital cities for the first time.

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