Re: NSW Chamber of Commerce supports VHST

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

Richard wrote in message <38C5BE5F.FB49D80@primus.com.au>...

>Speedrailwould not only provide a greater choice of travel, but the greater
>choice TO travel.

This is what happened in Europe with TGV's - more people started to travel,
as well as those migrating from air to rail.

>I would be very interested to know the realtive profitability of Melb-Syd
for
>Qantas compared to other domestic routes.

Whilst not specificaly QF, the following gives an indication of the
patronage figures of the SYD/MEL corridor, and includes load factors, which
is a fairly good indication of the profitability of a route. It is the
figures for May 1999 courtesy of Australian Aviation ond the DoTRS.

Melbourne/Sydney - a total of 2985 flights carried 408,795 passengers,
giving a total RPK (revenue/passenger-km) of 288,609,270, a load factor of
71.8%.

Brisbane/Sydney (I know, you did not mention it, but so what?) was 2014
flights, 246,818 paxs, 185,853,954 RPK's, load factor of 71.8% (same as
MEL-SYD).

The total for all routes in Australia was 22,344 flights, 2,046,735 paxs,
2,276,365,838 RPK's, load factor of 71.5%.

So, MEL/SYD had 13.4% of flights, 20% of paxs and 12.7% of RPK's. BNE/SYD
had 9% of flights, 12% of paxs and 8% of RPK's.

Thus, the SYD/MEL corridor has approx. 50% more seats, flights and RPK's
than the SYD/BNE corridor so the profitability should be similiar between
the two corridors. I do not have the figures for other corridors to hand, so
I am unable to post these figures or provide a comparison.

The revealing figure (to me, anyway) is the ratio of flights to paxs. Just
under 1/7th of the flights on the SYD/MEL corridor are carrying 1/5th of the
passengers. This seems to indicate that the profitability of this sector
would be somewhat higher than others (although impossible to really say
without information regarding the breakdown of fare types, etc).

Dave