Re: Countrylink looking up again

["Al" <alpout@optusnet.com.au>]

"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.

> 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.

> Dave
>

Al