Melbourne to Sydney has always been one of the busiest air routes in the
world into flight you'd normally have to pick either Qantas Virgin or Jetstar. But now...
regional express also known as rex has been operating in Australia since 2002 out of
Melbourne Brisbane Sydney Perth Cairns Adelaide usually flying the Saab 340s to regional locations
but today is a special day for them because it marks their inaugural flight between Melbourne
and Sydney using their newly leased Boeing 737s and i wasn't going to miss out on that
this way for the wrecks inaudible flight please make your way to the gate
i mean thank you for coming thank you for having faith in us and booking that ticket from paying
your money and turning up here this morning at the terrible hour of six o'clock in the morning in
order to join in what is one of the most historic moments in australian aviation in many many years
good thank you so very much come on
see what uh what rex have done is they've released six 737s from the same company that
used to lease them to virgin australia so you might recognize the seats look very familiar to
the ones that are on the virgin aircraft because they're the same seats that are on the virgin
aircraft but of course the good thing about that is that you get the business class option on the
737s with rex in the same way that you get a business class option on conus or virgin
or jet start it's the same setup at the front of the cabin with business class seats and there's
also access to a business class lounge here in sydney and i believe there's one in melbourne.
Ladies and gentlemen in just a few moments on both sides of the aircraft you'll be able to see
melbourne airport providing a ceremonial water cannon salute to commemorate our first 737 service
Ladies and gentlemen just like that welcome to sydney that was our first flight
hey paul when was the last time you're in like a real airport like getting on a real plane
uh three days ago oh okay that wasn't the answer you wanted no i thought it would be
longer there's a real buzz here today it's quite nice and now paul's jumping on this
sydney flight as well so the first flight from sydney to melbourne on board rex that's right
anything you're particularly looking forward to seeing trying having a look at i'm just looking
forward to getting back up in the air again i mean it's been really enjoyable just even
in the checking in process the staff is so happy everyone's very excited it's great to see another
airline on this route um making prices more competitive yeah i'm really looking forward to it
it's really nice to be back in an airport again with all the noise the announcements everybody
getting on their flights they're doing the same thing they did in melbourne here in sydney now
just some presentations talking about the aircraft sydney airport saying thank you to
rex i'm going to hop on this flight now and fly back to melbourne. I'll be home by lunchtime.
Yianni, what are you most looking forward to about the flight today
well it's something different it's a new competitor it's a 737 let's go
yani watches the channel i appreciate the support mate we're good enjoy the flight you too.