MEL-CNS on bus 56 hours $900 return. $175 on Tiger. Plain stupid
Or it shows how expensive it is to run a bus, compared to aircraft ---- same goes for trains, if you actually do the sums, minus the kind of subsidy most pax. rail gets ---- even though even I will admit that the lowest of the Tiger fares are (generally unfindable) loss leaders, and bear no relation to the amount of money you wind up paying Tiger.
Have you had a look at the rail fares, Sydney to Perth, recently??
As the man from Boeing said:
"3000m of railway gets you 3000m, 3000m of runway gets you anywhere"
As a matter , aircraft fuel consumption per pax mile compares well with the fuel consumption of a pax train, bus or car ----- on a total cost basis, aircraft given an even shake produce very cheap passenger miles (or km if you insist).
Tootle pip!!