K, entirely agree with your sentiments, the industry I fear is enquiry fatigued.
I can't help thinking however IF public submissions are called for this recycled
enquiry and IF the minister was allowed to view those submissions,
what a poke in the eye it would be for Murky when all these documents turn up
with the Forsyth address crossed out and the new one pencilled in with a note at the
bottom,
"Nothing has changed since this one or the one before that or the one before that or the one before that!
Minister time to walk the walk we have had enough talk".
Interesting little piece in the weekend Australian by our mate Mitch Bingemann regarding the downturn
in Domestic traffic allegedly showing Australians have been spooked from flying thus causing a reduction in profits
for our two airline crew. John Borgetti blames it on " a combination of reasons that include housing prices, election uncertainty both here and the in the US and global economic jitters"
err John old mate did anyone consider Ticket price? Did anyone have a look at traffic flows of Australians travelling overseas the past couple of years?
Since Australia seems to be Morphing back to the old two airline days of the sixties and seventies when a ticket return to Melbourne cost a punter about six months salary one has to wonder.
I travel fairly regularly from Sydney to the Sunshine Coast, only choice is Virgin, shitstar or a Qaintass Dash 8.
When I need to travel I look at the prices and weigh up the cost of driving compared with flying. Fares can vary between a hundred bucks one way to six hundred dependant on how much they think they can gouge out of desperate punters. Once that fare goes above a hundred and fifty bucks one way I drive, because you can get trapped into a six hundred return ticket plus all the sneaky little extras Shitstar cons you out of. Like fifty bucks for being 0.2KG over your hand carry limit (That was caused by the book I was carrying to read on the flight) (and incidentally someone should check the scales at the airport, I checked on certified scales after the event and my hand carry was actually 0.3 under the limit) Not to worry, revenge is sweet, I happened to have four American friends staying with me on holiday to visit and travel around Australia. So Shitstar might have gouged me for fifty bucks but I reckon I cost them and Qaintass quite a few thousand in lost fares. Incidently my guests loved Virgin's service.
Still I digress, airfares in Australia continue to rise? Why? fuel is still very cheap, but those fares continue on their climb to the stratosphere for domestic travel. I can buy a return ticket to the Philippines for seven hundred dollars.
A one way ticket to the Sunshine Coast or Brisbane averages three to four hundred one way, a cost I cannot justify against the cost of driving.
What has this to do with enquiries? probably nothing, but the end game is approaching for General Aviation in Australia. Its being priced out of existence by regulatory burden. Those same burdens exist for the Airline fraternity but economy of scale and a virtual duopoly makes those burdens easy to absorb, a few bucks on the ticket price is neither here nor there, but a downturn in domestic travel? Shock horror!!! could it be people have reached their limit as I have?
700 bucks return to the Philippines? Now if Australia had true "Open Skies" and international carriers were allowed to compete in the domestic market just how low would our fares go? Think of the economic benefits of Australians spending their holiday money here instead of other peoples countries. Think of the increase in foreign travellers who would visit Australia. Think of the Howls that would be heard from our Airline duopoly of unfair competition because international airlines are not saddled with the bureaucratic bullshit they have to deal with.
One can dream, but I wonder how long do nothing Darren would do nothing if that was the case.
Nice one TB. 'av a choc frog
I can't help thinking however IF public submissions are called for this recycled
enquiry and IF the minister was allowed to view those submissions,
what a poke in the eye it would be for Murky when all these documents turn up
with the Forsyth address crossed out and the new one pencilled in with a note at the
bottom,
"Nothing has changed since this one or the one before that or the one before that or the one before that!
Minister time to walk the walk we have had enough talk".
Interesting little piece in the weekend Australian by our mate Mitch Bingemann regarding the downturn
in Domestic traffic allegedly showing Australians have been spooked from flying thus causing a reduction in profits
for our two airline crew. John Borgetti blames it on " a combination of reasons that include housing prices, election uncertainty both here and the in the US and global economic jitters"
err John old mate did anyone consider Ticket price? Did anyone have a look at traffic flows of Australians travelling overseas the past couple of years?
Since Australia seems to be Morphing back to the old two airline days of the sixties and seventies when a ticket return to Melbourne cost a punter about six months salary one has to wonder.
I travel fairly regularly from Sydney to the Sunshine Coast, only choice is Virgin, shitstar or a Qaintass Dash 8.
When I need to travel I look at the prices and weigh up the cost of driving compared with flying. Fares can vary between a hundred bucks one way to six hundred dependant on how much they think they can gouge out of desperate punters. Once that fare goes above a hundred and fifty bucks one way I drive, because you can get trapped into a six hundred return ticket plus all the sneaky little extras Shitstar cons you out of. Like fifty bucks for being 0.2KG over your hand carry limit (That was caused by the book I was carrying to read on the flight) (and incidentally someone should check the scales at the airport, I checked on certified scales after the event and my hand carry was actually 0.3 under the limit) Not to worry, revenge is sweet, I happened to have four American friends staying with me on holiday to visit and travel around Australia. So Shitstar might have gouged me for fifty bucks but I reckon I cost them and Qaintass quite a few thousand in lost fares. Incidently my guests loved Virgin's service.
Still I digress, airfares in Australia continue to rise? Why? fuel is still very cheap, but those fares continue on their climb to the stratosphere for domestic travel. I can buy a return ticket to the Philippines for seven hundred dollars.
A one way ticket to the Sunshine Coast or Brisbane averages three to four hundred one way, a cost I cannot justify against the cost of driving.
What has this to do with enquiries? probably nothing, but the end game is approaching for General Aviation in Australia. Its being priced out of existence by regulatory burden. Those same burdens exist for the Airline fraternity but economy of scale and a virtual duopoly makes those burdens easy to absorb, a few bucks on the ticket price is neither here nor there, but a downturn in domestic travel? Shock horror!!! could it be people have reached their limit as I have?
700 bucks return to the Philippines? Now if Australia had true "Open Skies" and international carriers were allowed to compete in the domestic market just how low would our fares go? Think of the economic benefits of Australians spending their holiday money here instead of other peoples countries. Think of the increase in foreign travellers who would visit Australia. Think of the Howls that would be heard from our Airline duopoly of unfair competition because international airlines are not saddled with the bureaucratic bullshit they have to deal with.
One can dream, but I wonder how long do nothing Darren would do nothing if that was the case.
Nice one TB. 'av a choc frog