At full commercial rates, Crown’s private executive jets cost $10,000 per hour to operate, prompting questions about the federal government’s decision to use them for aid work.
The federal government hired private luxury jets belonging to Crown Melbourne to deliver aid, including COVID-19 vaccinations, to two Pacific destinations earlier this year at a cost of almost $600,000.
“Frankly, the use of Crown’s private jets for this government work stinks in my opinion,” Mr Wilkie said. “The taxpayer has a right to be angry about this,” Senator Patrick said. “They are paying for Air Force transport aircraft to be sitting on the ground and then paying a second time for expensive private jets to be hired.”Flight records from the crowd-sourced aviation website, ADS-B Exchange, show one of Crown’s jets left Melbourne on June 16, landing in Brisbane.
A video posted by Australia’s High Commissioner in Fiji shows the AUSMAT members at the Paspaley Group’s Pearl Flight Centre at Darwin Airport, where Crown’s plane can be seen on the tarmac. It had flown from Melbourne to Honolulu three days earlier, and landed in Darwin the night before. He said aid and personnel were always flown by defence planes or commercial airliners, and other aid workers travelling to Fiji from Australia during the pandemic had been able to travel on commercial flights, albeit with some difficulty.
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