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Joyce hadde i tankene denne saken fra 2017, også vist her på bloggen for fire år siden. Det er veldig sjelden du ser denne typen utfall som Joyce kommer med, overfor en konkurrent.

 A Regional Express Saab 340B has landed safely at Sydney airport after its right-hand propeller came off whilst operating a flight from Albury.

Pictures on social media show the aircraft, registered VH-NRX, on the ground at Sydney on 17 March, missing the whole propeller assembly on its right-hand General Electric CT7 turboprop engine.

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JOYCE SAYS ‘PROPELLERS LITERALLY FALLING OFF’ REX AIRCRAFT IN WITHERING COLUMN

written by Adam Thorn | April 23, 2021

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce delivers the airline group’s 2018-19 full year results. (Seth Jaworski)

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has written a withering newspaper column about rival Rex, mocking its “empty aircraft” that are so old the “propellers are literally falling off”.

“It’s a well-known fact in the industry that Rex has now chalked up another dubious honour,” wrote Joyce. “It has presided over the worst launch of a new jet airline in Australia’s aviation history, with empty aircraft and announced routes that have never been flown.”

The column in the AFR marks a major escalation in the war of words between the two airlines, which have for months been involved in a tit-for-tat argument over launching new services.

Joyce’s article was a direct response to one written in the same newspaper by Rex’s deputy chairman John Sharp, who branded Qantas “technically insolvent”.

“In March, [Rex’s] deputy chairman John Sharp told media that passenger numbers on Rex’s new jet services were ‘better than expected’, but declined to give any detail,” wrote Joyce. “When confronted with figures showing aircraft were only 20 per cent full, he said competitors were spying. Not that the figures were wrong – but that people were daring to look.”

He then mocked the airline’s “lonely customers” and accused Sharp of making “baseless criticisms” on purpose because it was a “key part of its strategy”.

“There are now so many ridiculous claims from Sharp and Rex, we have set up a page on our website to debunk them,” said Joyce.