In Reply to: Husband Transfered to Port Hedland HELP posted by shazy on Saturday, 10. September 2005 at 13:37 Bali Time:
I lived in the North West for a long time and the air fares domestic, that is are a bad joke. They can always fill their flights via the oil and gas and mining industry so really don't need to offer cheap flights. Also of course they have no opposition.
If your husband works for one of the big companies and can get a day off before Christmas Eve then a popular option is to put up an ad on the company notice board offering to share driving and petrol costs to Perth if anyone (and there will be somebody) is planning to drive down that day. Then by taking it turns to drive they can then keep going all the way to Perth without the cost of overnight accomodation on the way. I should imagine this is becoming even more common with the price of petrol!!
Good luck.