Re: INDIAN PACIFIC

["Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au>]

David Bromage wrote in message ...
>Dave Proctor (thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au) won a Nobel Prize for
literature by writing:
>> Peter and Susan wrote in message
<38c23ca1.7405782@news.powerup.com.au>...
>
>> >I wonder what the price will be after Virgin Airlines starts!!!
>> >
>> >10 years ago Compass Airlines helped bury the Intercapital Daylight.
>
>> There will still be a market for the Indian Pacific, but the market will
>> change (slightly).
>
>Virgin and other no-frills airlines compete with other airlines, not long
>distance rail. In the US, the land of the no-frills airline, Amtrak is to
>start a 60 hour up market service from New York to Los Angeles.

Virgin will be competing against peasant class on the IP - in the example
you gave, note the words "up" and "market" - Peasant class is anything but
up market, in fact, it is close to squalor. Virgin will be very competitive
on the SYD-ADL, ADL-PER and SYD-PER sectors.

Dave