Re: New Airline and Speedrail??

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

Matthew Geier <matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote in message
news:81se3r$9be$1@metro.ucc.usyd.edu.au...

>  Any one have figures on how large a segment of the market
Sydney-Melbourne is as apposed to
> every other route ?

Hi Matthew - sorry for the delay for this, as I had to do a bit of research.
My source (Australian Aviation) only came out today (December edition).
These figures are for May 1999, and are the latest available, courtesy of
DoTRS.

Melbourne/Sydney - a total of 2985 flights carried 408,795 passengers,
giving a total RPK (revenue/passenger-km) of 288,609,270, a load factor of
71.8%.

Brisbane/Sydney (I know, you did not mention it, but so what?) was 2014
flights, 246,818 paxs, 185,853,954 RPK's, load factor of 71.8% (same as
MEL-SYD).

The total for all routes in Australia was 22,344 flights, 2,046,735 paxs,
2,276,365,838 RPK's, load factor of 71.5%.

So, MEL/SYD had 13.4% of flights, 20% of paxs and 12.7% of RPK's.
BNE/SYD had 9% of flights, 12% of paxs and 8% of RPK's.

Overall, the top 5 city pairs (MEL/SYD, MEL/BNE, MEL/BNE, ADL/MEL and
ADL/SYD) had 8511 flights (38%), 985,508 paxs (48%), 828,051,725 RPK's (36%)
for a load factor of 72.3%.

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DaveProctor
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