Re: VFT/Sydney's Second airport (newspaper article)

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Dave Proctor (thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> What nobody seems to be saying (apart from those who are interested in both
> trains AND planes) is that given the number of aircraft movements on the
> Sunshine Coast / Brisbane / Gold Coast / Newcastle / Sydney / Canberra /
> Melbourne corridor, a high speed railway from Brisbane to Melbourne via
> Sydney would remove just about all of the air traffic from this corridor

Not quite all, but certainly a lot of it. Qantas plans to withdraw all the
Dash-8 turboprop services from SYD-CBR when Speedrail starts operation.
This would leave 3 jets per day.

Cheers
David