Re: $99 one-way airfares : Who needs the XPT

["James C" <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au>]

<ben_scaro@my-deja.com> wrote in message 8j2a97$og0$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:8j2a97$og0$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> I did the Syd-Brisbane a year ago and it was fairly full.  I opted for
> rail because of my interest in trains and as I hadn't travelled that
> line before.  I wouldn't do it again.  Not that the trip was bad.  The
> XPT is just is not the right train for such a trip.
XPT is not right for any trip :-)

> Back to the topic, I agree that really cheap fares could kill the inter-
> capital XPT services, unless the pensioner market is sufficient to keep
> them going. They just don't sem to offer anything special enough to
> survive. Unless you count the vegetarian strudel.
Greyhound is dead already.......Countrylink is hanging there.....


Cheers
James