public traded as asx rex industry transportation founded 2002 headquarters sydney australia key people lim kim hai chairman john sharp deputy chairman jim davis managing director products airlines air cargo air charter revenue a 229.7 million 2010 1 net income a 24.63 million 2010 number of employees 600 website http www.rex.com.au regional express holdings head office in mascot regional express holdings is the parent company of a number of airline and associated companies in australia . it is based in mascot new south wales a suburb of sydney and is a public listed company on the australian stock exchange . contents 1 corporate structure and history 2 references 3 footnotes 4 external links corporate structure and history edit regional express holdings had its arose from the 2001 collapse of ansett airlines which was the parent company of kendell airlines and hazelton airlines . a group of singaporean investors and a collection of australian private investors purchased the hazelton and kendell businesses which were profitable entities before they were taken over by ansett . the investors formed australiawide airlines which was officially incorporated on 12 february 2002 . the assets of the two airlines were purchased by australiawide and merged to form the airline regional express known as rex . in 2005 australiawide offered a percentage of the owners shares 35 million out of 115 million shares or 30.43 % to the public in a float . 2 3 at the same time an agreement was reached with the owners of pel air that australiawide would purchase pel air . 4 as part of the public float process australiawide airlines name was changed to regional express holdings . regional express holdings is the owner of a number of other companies . 5 the main asset is regional express pty. ltd. which owns another airline dubbo based air link . another company is rex freight and charter pty. ltd. which is the company that owns pel air . the third subsidiary company is rex investment holdings pty. ltd. which as of september 2007 is dormant . references edit thorn jim . interview michael jones ceo regional express . australian aviation magazine no. 187 september 2002 pp. 30 34 . aerospace publications pty. ltd. issn 0813 0876 footnotes edit creedy steve 26 august 2010 . rex books record profit but bumpy ride ahead . the australian . retrieved 26 august 2010 . rex initial public offering media release retrieved 26 september 2007 . rex share offer media release retrieved 26 september 2007 . rex invests in pel air media release retrieved 26 september 2007 . regional express holdings corporate structure retrieved 26 september 2007 . external links edit rex website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title regional express holdings & oldid 693377194 categories airline holding companiesholding companies of australiahidden categories use dmy dates from february 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 december 2015 at 04 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view