Air Travel
Sir, —For the last four years, through the columns of the press, I have been advocating a more virile and advanced outlook on our air services, both internal and overseas, and it is very pleasing to read of Qantas reducing, for group travel, the present economy-class rate to Europe by some 27 per cent. A step in the right direction, which, however, is of little or no benefit to the ordinary traveller unless travel agents organise the group associations required. In your article on the subject in last Thursday’s issue, the Minister of Aviation trots out the old argument that it is unfair to compare overland fares with overseas fares, but he ignores the fact that in the latter case there are no intermediate stations to be maintained. Competition induces virility: monopolies generally breed complacency.—Yours, etc..
TRAVELLER. February 23. 1963.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30065, 25 February 1963, Page 7
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