Re: SYD-MEL $44 on Impulse

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Railway Rasputin3" <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
39bab2d0$0$26528$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au">news:39bab2d0$0$26528$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...

> Another bad news, VirginBlue is looking at introduce Brisbane-Adelaide
> flight

I don't really see how that could be bad news for rail - Brisbane to
Adelaide by rail would take three nights (if travelling via Melbourne) or
two nights via Broken Hill, and would cost so much that airfares would have
been competitive prior to Virgin Blue entering that market.

Dave