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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00:00Last year I was diagnosed as having metastatic breast cancer, so that's incurable cancer
00:09at this stage.
00:10Hopefully one day it won't be.
00:12So I spent a lot of time in the beginning flying back and forth from Perth every week
00:15for my chemo treatments and my other treatments.
00:18I'm really fortunate to be no evidence of disease at the moment, but I still fly up
00:23every three weeks for treatment.
00:25Most of the time I can leave first thing in the morning and I'm home by the end of the
00:28day.
00:29Sometimes I have to stay overnight or I do have to take a trip in between those three
00:33weeks too if I have scans come up or I have oncology appointments and things.
00:37But yeah, I do rely on Rex quite a bit for my situation.
00:41When you're a healthy person, you don't realise how important these things are, I think, to
00:46people that aren't.
00:48And in this, I've met a few people through different circumstances, not necessarily the
00:53same as my own, that do need to fly every week, our elderly, people who can't physically
00:59drive anymore.
01:00Like there is so many reasons, not just health reasons, why we need to have access to Perth
01:05because 800 kilometres is just too far for a lot of people to drive, those that can't
01:12sit in the car for that long and just those that simply don't drive anymore.
01:16I just think that to not have that service, and I do remember a time when Esperance didn't
01:21have it for a short amount of time, it was horrendous because while we have the bus,
01:25it's 10 hours sitting on a bus and I know a lot of people that just couldn't do that.