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Old Apr 11, 2010, 5:31 am
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belfordrocks
 
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Originally Posted by restlessinRNO
Great trip report Seat 2A. A change from reading international SQ F TRs. I'm not sure if I've seen a PER-BME-DRW TR before. Now I am not an Australian FF expert. Is Skywest a division of Virgin Blue? I certainly would have wanted to spend some time in the Perth Virgin Blue lounge.
Skywest was a division of the now defunct Ansett with just 4 F50's. When Ansett went under in 02 it was purchased by private investors and expanded its ops to 8x F50, 8x F100 and 1x A320. So XR is currently an independent company, but it does do quite a number of mining charters.

Hope that helps.
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