Student travel
Sir,—l wish to object to the article in “The Press” (May 5) concerning students being able to afford to jet home. The use of words such as. “many” and “flood” do not say anything to the reader except that more than one student can now afford to jet home and the airlines have had more than one booking from students. By a “flood of bookings” does the writer mean 10, 100, 1000 bookings? In contrast the student
stand-by scheme is popular with students. For example, on Wednesday morning at 6 a.m. approximately 100 students were waiting for stand-by tickets at the airport. Yet one may still think flying is an expensive method of transport; but to the North Island it is certainly cheaper to travel stand-by than by rail. I attribute this to (1) relative air fares are cheaper now than ever before; (2) Air New Zealand is a more professional transport business than the New ‘ Zealand Railways.— Yours, etc.,
M. P. TYLEE. May 5, 1981.
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