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Old 31st Jan 2003, 04:06
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i can't see virgin flying into kalgoorlie in the forseeable future, there has to be easier ways to make money, and international expansion would surely come first. adelaide is set to get an increase in services this year and virgin have publicly touted kal as a possible destination from ADL. as for virgin providing some more eastbound services they already have double dailies to sydney, melbourne, adelaide and a new direct brissie service...

kalgoorlie may well be able to support 2 jet services, but maybe not profitably, this is where the qantaslink are at an advantage over skywest as they can cross-subsidise off their more profitable intrastate WA jet routes and keep a kalgoorlie service going, conversely skywest does not have this luxury as most of their routes are marginal...

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