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Re: Wonderful, Customer-Responsive GSR



crookesp@aol.com (Crookesp) wrote:

>For instance, we can go on the Melbourne Sydney overnight express with a
>sleeper leaving at midnight. That allows us to get back from Bendigo in the
>afternoon, find dinner and a show in Melbourne, join our train and be
>delivered to Sydney overnight. No hotel, no boring driving, no sleazy bus
>station, no expensive trek out to the airport in taxis where the meter is
>worked by a foot-pedal,  no worries.

You'll have *some*  worries as you'll be the only person on
Melbourne's Spencer Street Platform 1 at midnight as the XPT to Sydney
departed 4 hours earlier.

Sack your travel agent!

Regards 

Yuri



>Which other mode of transport offers that advantage?

>There is a market for long-haul passenger travel in Australia. It's not
>promoted here in Europe as well as it could be, which may account for lower
>revenue figures on the passenger side. But it's there...

>*Philip*