{"id":444562,"date":"2026-06-02T14:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1433517"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:11:59","slug":"issue-401-blindsided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=444562","title":{"rendered":"Issue #401: Blindsided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"640\" height=\"870\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI2NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iODcwIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1433615 wp-post-1433517\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" data-public-id=\"Australian Aviation\/Cover401_SR_stmgbr\/Cover401_SR_stmgbr.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto\" data-version=\"1779325436\" data-seo=\"1\" data-responsive=\"1\" data-size=\"640 870\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/>Did Bonza get a bum rap? It would have been the\u00a0Australian aviation story of 2024 \u2013 the sudden and spectacular disintegration of Australia\u2019s newest jet airline \u2013 were it not for the sudden and spectacular disintegration of Rex\u2019s domestic jet operations just a couple of months later. Yet, while Rex limped on with government support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did Bonza get a bum rap? It would have been the\u00a0Australian aviation story of 2024 \u2013 the sudden and spectacular disintegration of Australia\u2019s newest jet airline \u2013 were it not for the sudden and spectacular disintegration of Rex\u2019s domestic jet operations&#8230;<\/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":[273,312,477,19001,10637],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-444562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-aviation","category-premium-content","category-premium-exclusive","category-quarterly-magazines","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444562","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=444562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444563,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444562\/revisions\/444563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}