Re: Holistic Govt Rail decisions ????

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Ashley Wright" <ajwright@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:25:03 +1000, "Dave Proctor"
> <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> >Umm, six slots is three takeoffs and three landings, at present there are
> >often seven or eight flights per hour in each direction between SYD and
MEL
> >(mainly in the peaks though) and reducing this to three or four per hour
> >achieves the six per hour reduction in movements that David mentioned.
>
> 7 or 8 is still quite a large amount, QANTAS between 0600 and 1130 run
> every half hour, with an extra flights at 0645 and an internation
> flight at 0805. Ansett is half hour up to 11:00 also. That equates to
> 8 slots, plus Impulse and Vigin. So the calulation still stands that 6
> slots is 50% peak and 100% off peak.

And again, you were referring to majors, David was referring to all
movements, and his calculation stands.

> >Also, why would the international flights still have to fly the SYD to
MEL
> >sector? Plenty of international carriers only serve one of these ports,
and
> >it would be an easy matter for the train to be brought into the airline
CRS,
> >effectively meaning through ticketing and fares - as the proposal is to
run
> >it via YSSY anyway (YSSY is SYD airport) it would be quite an easy matter
to
> >ticket someone from MEL to YSSY on the VHST and YSSY to wherever on
> >whichever airline they were flying on.
>
>   Many airlines use them as possitioning flights, and extensions of
> existing flights. I personaly find it a pain to have to change planes
> from International to Domestic in Sydney to get to Canberra (but
> obviously there is not much that can be done about it), but I don't
> think too many internationals would want PAX changing to a train in
> Sydney, nor would I think the PAX would do it either!

It happens all the time in Europe, and considering that in Sydney there is a
change of terminal involved when transferring from international to
Domestic, with the domestic leg arriving at Tullamarine, then a change of
mode, to a mode which arrives in the centre of Melbourne, is one that not
too many passengers would complain about (retail travel experience talking
here).

Dave