Alex Chan is standing in front of what looks like a five-storey, purple cheese grater. The enormous disc is known as a cutter head, and the 4000-tonne engine sitting behind it will soon push it underground.
The news caps a remarkable turnaround that saw Rex obtain some of Virgin’s leased aircraft when it entered administration in 2020, before the larger carrier took them back when the same fate befell the regional carrier last year.
A panel including Rex’s Ron Bartsch, Qantas’ Harry Jobberns and Jet Zero’s Ed Mason discuss the sector’s push towards net zero.
