Re: QR team up with Virgin Blue!

["Shane Polle" <shanep@amc.aust.com>]

I agree, my wife and I would love to do the long distance trips of Qld (we live
in Gladstone Qld), but the cost of using the sleeper is certainly not cheap if you
are paying full fare. We oerfer to leave it for weekend trips to save on AL. 

However the distance is too great, the only trip we can do on a weekend 
is Longreach, but leaves us with only 13hrs O/N in the town, to fly one 
one is usually pricey, in fact if I had to do it, sometimes it is cheaper to 
buy the return and not fly. 

However a cheap oneway air ticket, packaged with a oneway rail ticket (1st class)
would be great.The old drive/train on the motor rail is now a thing of the past.

Shane


> Good stuff , The trip to cairns Needs something like that , Id definatly give
> it a go If i headed that way other than by car.I 'm not sure if anyone wants to 
>sit up for 27 hours in a diesel tilttrain?? unless the fare is cheap. But if someone
 >take train say Sunlander orSOT or Queenslander one way and fly back by 
>Virgin-Blue might make moresense. Some passengers do that on 
>Indian Pacific/Ghan already as a tourpackage with Qantas. (Do Virgin Blue fly to 
>Cairns? I though they only >go asfar as Townsville? )
> By the way you have some sort of problem with your mail proggi orsomething,
> theres some control characters getting into your text. Makes it Hard toread 
>:PReally? I reinstall window recently and experienced some "teethingproblems" lately.

>Cheers 
>James