Um firstly lets all stop attacking each other! and dont dig into Peanut Pusher either! everyone is entitled to their own opinion we live in a free country after all...but lets not be nasty to one another!
anyways found this article that may be of interest to u guys...I'm not saying anything else!
Nick
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We can’t afford security slug: Virgin Blue
Airfares will rise if airlines are forced to foot the bill for an upgrade of Australia’s airport security services, according to domestic carrier Virgin Blue.
The government has called on the aviation industry to bear the brunt of the $180 million upgrade under which all baggage on domestic and international flights will be screened.
Virgin Blue told AAP it would be forced to raise fares to cover the cost, while local rival Qantas said it had yet to make a decision.
“If the government is expecting the industry, aka Qantas and Virgin, to put in the first $180 million over the first two years … we can’t afford to do that,” Virgin Blue ceo Brett Godfrey told the news service.
“It’s going to be detrimental to our business, its going to be detrimental to the industry.
“Unfortunately it will have to be the consumer who foots the bill and ultimately suffers as well.”
Godfrey said national security was the responsibility of the government and not an aviation issue.
“Bali didn’t involve airports and it didn’t involve aeroplanes,” he said.
"The World Trade Centre, as awful as it was, didn’t just involve aeroplanes.
"We are going to have to start looking at taxes on tell buildings, start looking at shopping centre charges, taxes to go to the football.’’
Deputy prime minister John Anderson said the upgrade was expected to add little more than "the price of an ice-cream’’ to air fares.
13 December 2002
