Specialists dependent on Rex Airlines to fly them into rural communities say its collapse will be catastrophic

Associate Professor Rachael Cordina says Rex must be saved, or regions will be in crisis.
Dr Rachael Cordina. Photo: Fairfax.

Associate Professor Rachael Cordina is among hundreds of doctors who regularly fly on troubled Rex Airlines to treat rural patients.

But the cardiologist and her colleagues are now nervously watching the fallout from the regional carrier’s financial difficulties.