{"id":260562,"date":"2025-08-01T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1417152"},"modified":"2025-08-01T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:56:11","slug":"virgin-knocked-back-government-appeals-to-buy-rex-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=260562","title":{"rendered":"Virgin knocked back government appeals to buy Rex, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI2NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iMzYxIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1392674 wp-post-1417152\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" data-public-id=\"Australian Aviation\/20231005_184013_fpafdb.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto\" data-version=\"1723790716\" data-responsive=\"1\" data-size=\"1200 677\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/>Sources said to be \u201cfamiliar with the discussions\u201d told The Australian that the office of Transport Minister Catherine King had lobbied Virgin to take over the stricken carrier earlier this year, but found no success. It comes as Rex marks one year of its voluntary administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources said to be \u201cfamiliar with the discussions\u201d told The Australian that the office of Transport Minister Catherine King had lobbied Virgin to take over the stricken carrier earlier this year, but found no success. It comes as Rex marks one year of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[476,273,312,471],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-260562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airlines","category-australia","category-aviation","category-news","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260563,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260562\/revisions\/260563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}