What we pay here? An average (not a special, just a plain old average) $600 - $700 per return flight to and from Sydney is what I've heard from people who use the QF service regularly.
With the load factors the way they appear to be, there are people paying it too.
Miss B, I feel you overlook the fact that not everyone wants to
get in to Alice, some of us want to escape from here every now and again and before now none could regularly afford it on a GA wage, now I might be able to get out and about a little more....