Re: Impulse Airlines

[ajwright@ozemail.com.au (Ashley Wright)]

On Mon, 08 May 2000 04:53:18 GMT, Michael Kurkowski
<mk@netstra.com.au> wrote:

>David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> said:
>
>>Qantas has matched the Impulse fares, and I guess Ansett won't be too far
>>behind. Things are going to get really sticky when Virgin announces its
>>fares.
>
>Looks much like it will be another Compass affair. Weed the small companies 
>out of business then jack up prices again. Yesterdays news claims that the 
>ACCC will put a stop to this from happening, but with Howards cronies 
>looking after the whole thing, I'm not holding my breath.
>

 I lost sympathy for Impulse when they started about the anti
competitive aspects of QANTAS upping the Newcastle/Melbourne services
to Bae146's. If Impluse wants to play with the big boys then they must
be prepared for the big boys to fight back. Getting back to a rail
related subject on the news Kate Carnell (the ACT head shabang) was
saying how Impulse is unlikly to effect the viability of a fast train
link. Judging by the likely prices of a return fast train ticket I
would agree. I think the $119 CBR/SYD one way ticket is cheap but not
cheap enough. As I said in AUS.AVIATION I can get a better price on
AN/QF although with conditions.
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