Re: INDIAN PACIFIC

["deano" <dsma@pigpond.com>]

I won't be holding my breath to see em on anything other than the east
coast.
The flight west is long and lean. It's not too hard for an airline to carry
a couple of
loss making one hour flights but to do a 7 hour Perth return with inadequate
bums in
seats can mean lots of lost dollars. Even if the seats are full they have to
be high value
fares. I reckon about 2004 before Virgin can take that kind of yield risk.
David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
RcWw4.533$co1.327458@news0.optus.net.au">news:RcWw4.533$co1.327458@news0.optus.net.au...
> Dave Proctor (thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au) won a Nobel Prize for
literature by writing:
> > David Bromage wrote in message ...
> > >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
>
> Virgin has no immediate plans to fly to Perth, or even Adelaide. Initial
> plans for for BNE-SYD-MEL only. Ditto Impulse Airlines.
>
> Cheers
> David