WRITE OFF: Nexus Airlines moves to suspend Kimberley flight route from September 2025

Multiple stakeholders beyond Nexus are already lobbying the WA Government to regulate the Broome–Kununurra–Darwin route to protect it from monopoly control, according to Nexus managing director Michael McConachy.

It comes after Nexus announced it would be closing down its services on the route last week, with final flights scheduled for September 1.

“We’ve certainly been in contact with the department . . . there’s other stakeholders that are calling for this, which is positive. And I think the key thing here is . . . it’s about protecting the communities and the people that use it,” Mr McConachy said.

“We saw an increase in the number of people travelling on the route by sort of 30-40 per cent, but the increase in capacity was . . . at certain times of the year . . . over 300 per cent. There was just way too much capacity.”

“You need to be able to get to Broome and Darwin cost-effectively, and also for growing tourism and economic development more generally.”