In Reply to: Perth people posted by dennisc on Wednesday, 11. June 2008 at 12:25 Bali Time:
Yes well it appears that the only place that Bali is gaining popularity is out of the ports that Gardua already flies from Dennis! Still no cigar for Adelaide, Brisbane or NZ. To add salt to the wound, Garuda has even diverted one flight a week from Sydney down to Melbourne and then off to Denpasar. No such common sense prevails with any of the four flights out of Melbourne that could have gone via Adelaide as it did in the good old days...or Sydney up to Brisbane for that matter. Nosiree...that'd be too much like common sense. Or...perhaps it would simply break the cosy little arrangement with local carriers getting ticket sales for connecting flights! Add to that the runway rape that the Airport Corp stings the carriers for landing fees when it's enroute and it's easy to see why there will be no good news for us any time soon. Interesting how Captain Marvel Rann and his tubbyfaced bovva-boy sidekick Chopper Foley do a big job of jerkin' the gherkin when there's good news to announce but have been completely impotent in their attempts to get anyone to actually fly into Adelaide other than an off-course crop-duster out of Kangaroo Island! In fact neither them or the Queen of Tourism Lomax Smith has uttered one word on the subject of lost domestic flights over recent days.