Re: Virgin SYD-MEL

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

Found in aus.aviation - who was it who said "For one thing, they need
planes.  If they had enough to add the route straight away, that would
be excess capacity that would be sitting around costing them a pile.
OK, they have 14 new 737's coming, but it takes Boeing a bit longer to
put a plane together than Holden does a car.  Secondly, don't you
think they'll analyse what went wrong with Impulse on the
Sydney-Melbourne route and make sure they don't make the same
mistakes?"

Dave

On Thu, 24 May 2001 14:14:20 +1000, David Bromage
<dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote:

>According to The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, Virgin Blue could be
>flying SYD-MEL as early as next month.
>
>Under the ACCC decision, Virgin is entitled to 60% of the Sydney slots
>vacated by Impulse. If Virgin doesn't take them, they will revert to a
>new entrant. As there is no new entrant, the ACCC will allow them to
>revert to Qantas.
>
>With another 737-700 arriving in a few weeks, this could mean 6 services
>per day from next month.
>
>Cheers
>David