Unless some clear cut guidance emerges from the Minister of Transport, Mark Vaile it appears that REX has metaphorically torn the cockpit doors off the massive investment that has been made in anti-terrorism measures in Australia since 9/11, writes Ben Sandilands.
Cockpit
Tips and rumours
Ivan Dean the pro-pulp mill mayor of Launceston lost his chains last night in the municipal elections to Albert van Zetten. It’s highly significant—Van Zetten had been an alderman who voted against the pulp mill. He also knows it’s a hot issue. As head of the Launceston City Mission, Van Zetten copped threats from one promiment […]
REX does its bit for the war on terror
In a moment of collective insanity at Regional Express Airlines last Friday, the carrier’s chief pilot approved a request by staff to fly a passenger in the cockpit jump seat of a SAAB 340 turbo-prop on a service from Sydney to Lismore. Ben Sandilands reports.
