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.
>
> Just looked again, still available.

And when's your next trip after that one going to be, if you're booking them 6
weeks in advance?

> > > 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?

At least a year, according to one article I read this morning.

> Dave
>

Al