Summary
- National Jet Express (NJE), an element of Rex Group, is rapidly expanding its presence within the Queensland market and has secured recent contracts from major mining corporations.
- NJE goals to be the go-to selection for resource corporations, offering premium and reliable services with modern aircraft and a reduced carbon footprint.
- Rex Group, as Queensland’s largest operator of regional passenger services, allows seamless connections for resource employees between their worksites and various destinations in Queensland and Rex’s domestic network.
Flying business people between Sydney and Melbourne is one a part of business travel, but getting resource employees out to distant mining communities is a complete other ball game. That is where Rex Group company National Jet Express excels, and under its recent owners, it’s rapidly expanding its presence within the Queensland market.
Constructing a Queensland presence
National Jet Express (NJE), a three way partnership 50% owned by Rex, joined the Rex Group in October 2022 and immediately set about expanding into the Queensland resources market. By May this 12 months, NJE had secured its first Queensland contract and, inside six weeks, had established a brand new operational base at Brisbane Airport, launching fly-in fly-out (FIFO) flights in July.
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Yesterday, Rex Group announced a major expansion of its NJE operations in Queensland after winning more contracts from major mining corporations. The brand new services will begin in the approaching weeks and be operated with De Havilland Dash 8-400NG turboprops, adding more routes on the East Coast to enrich NJE’s extensive operations in Western Australia.
NJE Managing Director Chris Hine said NJE intends to be the primary port-of-call for resource corporations that need premium, reliable services in modern aircraft with a significantly reduced carbon footprint.
“These recent contracts so soon after our launch in Queensland in July this 12 months, clearly display that we’re on the best trajectory to attain our objective. I see a crying demand across the development, mining and resources industries and we’re actively sourcing additional modern aircraft for each the Sunshine State in addition to Western Australia.”
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Travelers at Brisbane Airport are used to seeing a mass of high-vis clothing as employees transit the airport to return home after shifts on distant worksites. A serious profit for those employees is that Rex is Queensland’s largest operator of regional passenger services and has a growing network of Boeing 737 domestic flights out of Brisbane.
Seamless connections to the Rex network
Inside the Rex Group, resource employees can use the NJE Dash-8s from their worksite to Brisbane after which seamlessly connect with the 24 Rex regional and rural destinations in Queensland or the main capital cities served by its domestic 737 jet services.
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The newest wins include each recent routes and adding an extra weekly flight to the present service between Moranbah and Brisbane. Moranbah Airport (MOV) is owned and operated by the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) and is about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from Brisbane.
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The brand new charter services include twice-weekly flights on the Cairns-Townsville-Moranbah route, weekly flights between Brisbane and Emerald and Moranbah and a weekly flight between Brisbane and Rockhampton. Since acquiring NJE, Rex has added an extra Dash 8-400NG, bringing the fleet to nine Dash 8s and 6 Embraer E190 regional jets serving mining and resource customers across Australia.
NJE, founded in 1994, flies international FIFO services between Cairns and Papua Recent Guinea using three De Havilland Dash 8-100s. The multi-purpose airline also operates extensive night freight services between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and the Gold Coast using 4 British Aerospace BAe146 jets.