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Re: Booked out Melb XPTs
David Bromage wrote in message <378BDD34.AD2E6B3F@omni.com.au>...
>It doesn't quite work that way. The day train with 366 seats may have 500
>or more passengers travel on it over the course of a journey. On one
journey
>from Armidale to Sydney, the PSS told me that the 222 seat Xplorer had more
>than 400 different people on it over the course of the journey.
Actually, that would work in its favour - the through fare is always cheaper
than the sum of two intermediate fares - so selling a seat three times for
the one trip (Sydney - Cootamundra, Coota - Albury and Albury - Melbourne,
for example) would result in even more revenue.
DaveP