{"id":305730,"date":"2025-10-23T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-t-to-acquire-rex-airlines\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:00:16","slug":"us-holding-company-air-t-to-acquire-australias-rex-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=305730","title":{"rendered":"US Holding Company Air T To Acquire Australia&#8217;s Rex Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-based Air T officially signed a Sale and Implementation Deed to acquire Regional Express (Rex) from multiple administrators, with Australia&#8217;s government agreeing to restructure Rex&#8217;s financing to keep regional flights operating. The airline has been struggling in recent years. Closing is targeted by year-end, and the deal itself is subject to creditor and court approvals. Air T plans to fund engine renewals and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/atsb-report-rex-saab-340-haywire-evacuation-so-much-went-wrong\/\" >return Rex&#8217;s Saab 340 fleet to service<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acquisition was confirmed earlier today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[11946,396,476,2788,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquisitions","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-mergers","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305730","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=305730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305731,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305730\/revisions\/305731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}