Rex awarded Best Regional Airline Australia

& Pacific by Skytrax

Rex Airlines was awarded the prestigious title of Best Regional Airline Australia & Pacific at the 2023 World Airline Awards hosted by Skytrax.

“We congratulate the management and staff of Rex Airlines for this great success at the World Airline Awards,” said Edward Plaisted, CEO of Skytrax.

“Their achievement in being named Best Regional Airline Australia & Pacific is a fantastic accolade for the airline management and staff, which recognises the product and service quality being delivered to passengers,” he added.

Lim Kim Hai, Rex’s Executive Chairman, emphasised the significance of this recognition for the airline’s dedicated staff.

“Being voted as the best regional airline means so much to the 2,000 staff in the Rex Group as they go above and beyond every day in conditions that are still extremely challenging,” he said.

Established in 1999, the World Airline Awards are the most coveted quality accolades for the airline industry and are often referred to as the “Oscars of the aviation industry.”

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Farewell Max Hazelton

With a Rex Saab 340 parked outside, 500 people attended a special memorial service to honour Max Hazelton AM OBE.

Max, one of Australia’s greatest aviation pioneers, passed away on April 9, three weeks short of his 96th birthday.

Max was the founder of Hazelton Airlines – one of the two component airlines of Rex.

The service was held in an aircraft hangar adjacent to the Max Hazelton Aero Centre at Orange Airport Aero Club.

Parked inside the hangar was a four-seater Auster Aiglet, Max’s first and favourite aircraft.

“As Ralph Waldo Emerson, said once, ‘Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail’. And that’s exactly what Max Hazelton did throughout his life,” said the Hon John Sharp AM, Rex Deputy Chairman.

“Max did things differently to everybody else.

“That’s because he was different. That’s because he was brave and that’s because he was a pioneer.

“There were so many things that came out of that powerful, determined, pioneering spirit.

“Max and his wife Laurel are credited with one of the most vital elements of the infrastructure of regional Australia, and that’s regional airlines.

“Today Rex carries on the tradition of Hazelton Airlines – providing an air service to country people around Australia.”

New Adelaide to Sydney route as network expands

The inaugural flight between Adelaide and Sydney, Rex’s eighth domestic route, took to the skies recently. The Hon John Sharp AM, Rex Deputy Chairman and Adelaide Airport Managing Director, Brenton Cox, cut the spectacular cake at a launch celebration held at Adelaide Airport.