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Regional airline Rex suspends trading on stock market
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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7/30/2024
Esperance resident Keena Creedon relies on the regional airline to get her to crucial medical treatment. She says losing Rex would put further strain on her family.
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Last year I was diagnosed as having metastatic breast cancer, so that's incurable cancer
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at this stage.
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Hopefully one day it won't be.
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So I spent a lot of time in the beginning flying back and forth from Perth every week
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for my chemo treatments and my other treatments.
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I'm really fortunate to be no evidence of disease at the moment, but I still fly up
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every three weeks for treatment.
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Most of the time I can leave first thing in the morning and I'm home by the end of the
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day.
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Sometimes I have to stay overnight or I do have to take a trip in between those three
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weeks too if I have scans come up or I have oncology appointments and things.
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But yeah, I do rely on Rex quite a bit for my situation.
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When you're a healthy person, you don't realise how important these things are, I think, to
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people that aren't.
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And in this, I've met a few people through different circumstances, not necessarily the
00:53
same as my own, that do need to fly every week, our elderly, people who can't physically
00:59
drive anymore.
01:00
Like there is so many reasons, not just health reasons, why we need to have access to Perth
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because 800 kilometres is just too far for a lot of people to drive, those that can't
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sit in the car for that long and just those that simply don't drive anymore.
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I just think that to not have that service, and I do remember a time when Esperance didn't
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have it for a short amount of time, it was horrendous because while we have the bus,
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it's 10 hours sitting on a bus and I know a lot of people that just couldn't do that.
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