Aircraft, you've overlooked the one fact that will carry the argument for a fare increase through and ensure it will get up:
That is that it is so damned far to drive anywhere in WA etc that people will just about pay anything to avoid having to drive 100's (if not 1000's) of km on badly corrugated dirt roads if they could avoid it.
Edited the rest of the post.
Last edited by OpsNormal; 16th Sep 2007 at 01:47.
Reason: Not bothering to buy into the argument