Re: Countrylink looking up again

["Dave Proctor" <david@sd3.mailbank.com>]

"Al" <alpout@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Dave Proctor" <david@spambait.proctor.net> wrote in message
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> > "Al" <alpout@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> > > Well, with the cheap airfares gone between Sydney and Melbourne (since
> > Qantas
> > > has taken over Impulse), wanna bet on the XPT patronage going up
again?
> >
> > Cheap airfares gone? I just booked (at 2320 on 01MAY01) a $132 return
> > SYD-MEL on QF for 17JUN. This is about 15 hours after the deal was
> > announced.
>
> I'll bet they don't last long.  $50 says that's your last trip at that
price.

Just looked again, still available.

> > And you seem to have forgotten about Virgin Blue.
>
> No I didn't.  I stated Sydney-Melbourne, which is a route that Virgin Blue
> doesn't fly.

At the moment - how long before they start?

Dave