Originally Posted by
MickG0105
The WA
Regional Airfare Zone Cap scheme is, as it suggests on the tin, only available to WA
regional residents for personal travel on eligible routes to and from Perth. If you are a Perth resident travelling to Carnarvon, you are looking at return fares in the $750 - $1,125 range. If you are a Carnarvon resident travelling to Perth, your return fare is capped at $398.
Considering there's only about 3000 residents in that area who would be in the bracket capable of possibly paying for such fares (19-75 years old), there's not going to be a lot of subsidized fares. From a marketing point of view you could probably drop that number down to less than 1000 for actual possible customers (using census data), yes there is catchment from surrounding areas, but not a lot. I'd say the majority of paying passengers would be tourists/workers flying in and out of the area. Albany and Esperance have much better population support as well as tourism. Very interesting that no one else tendered for those two, says a lot about what capacity other operators have and what they want to focus on.