AIRLINES CUT FARES
AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION STATE V. PRIVATE PLANES (11 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 16. The airline warfare has reached a new phase with the acceptance by the Government - owned Trans • Australia Airlines of a challenge by Ansett Airways to cut fares on the SydneyBrisbane route to £6 Is Cd. • Trans-Australia Airlines, which showed a heavy loss on last year’s operations, has dropped the fare from £7 6s to conform with the new level, but announces that first-class facilities will be retained and that the seating capacity of planes will not be increased. The Government company has reduced its fares on the route Sydney to Adelaide, via Canberra and Mildura, to £9 15s Gd, though the privatelyowned Australian National Airways still charges £ll 15s.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22587, 16 March 1948, Page 5
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