{"id":38554,"date":"2020-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/airline-says-it-will-stop-flying-kangaroo-island\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T09:48:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T09:48:16","slug":"airline-says-it-will-stop-flying-kangaroo-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/airline-says-it-will-stop-flying-kangaroo-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline Says It Will Stop Flying To Kangaroo Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE, Tuesday 4 February<\/strong> &#8211; REX PULLING OUT OF KANGAROO ISLAND.<\/p>\n<p>FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner speaks with Mayor of KI Michael Pengilly and Member for Mawson Leon Bignell. LISTEN:<\/p>\n\n<p>EARLIER&#8230;<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<h3>Regional Express has announced it will stop flying to KI from Adelaide within weeks.<\/h3>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p>Reporting for 7 News, Mark Mooney said the move was \u201canother massive blow to the bushfire ravaged\u201d community.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Another massive blow to bushfire ravaged Kangaroo Island with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexAirlines?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RexAirlines<\/a> announcing it will stop flying the Adelaide to KI route within weeks. <br><br>Rex says it\u2019s not able to match Qantas\u2019 financial firepower, blaming a recent downturn and poor economic outlook. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/7NEWS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#7NEWS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y1yshnK22y\">pic.twitter.com\/Y1yshnK22y<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mark Mooney (@MarkMooney7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkMooney7\/status\/1224154951972081664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexAirlines?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RexAirlines<\/a> has announced it\u2019s canning all Adelaide to Kangaroo Island flights in the coming weeks, accusing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Qantas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Qantas<\/a> of over-saturating the route and making it no longer financially viable. Rex has made a complaint about Qantas to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acccgovau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@acccgovau<\/a>. More tonight on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9NewsAdel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@9NewsAdel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lGPyYsCUt0\">pic.twitter.com\/lGPyYsCUt0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bryce Heaton (@bryceheaton9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bryceheaton9\/status\/1224150828589518849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE, Tuesday 4 February &#8211; REX PULLING OUT OF KANGAROO ISLAND. FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner speaks with Mayor of KI Michael Pengilly and Member for Mawson Leon Bignell. LISTEN: EARLIER&#8230;&#13; &#13; Regional Express has announced it will stop flying to KI from Adelaide within weeks.&#13; &#13; Reporting for 7 News, Mark Mooney said the move was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,144],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-38554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-news","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Airline Says It Will Stop Flying To Kangaroo Island - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/airline-says-it-will-stop-flying-kangaroo-island\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Airline Says It Will Stop Flying To Kangaroo Island\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UPDATE, Tuesday 4 February &#8211; REX PULLING OUT OF KANGAROO ISLAND. 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