An Alice Springs family of four faces $8,000 in airfares to get to the Coffs Coast of NSW for a holiday, prompting calls for more airline competition to bring prices down.
Christmas is traditionally a quiet time of year in Alice Springs. The heat, the flies, and the isolation often drives people south for the summer months.One Alice Springs family will drive 500km to Yulara to fly south to save thousands of dollars in airfares for ChristmasHe would also welcome a cheaper resident fare from Qantas between Alice Springs and AdelaideSeptember, Alice Springs residents are trying to plot the cheapest summer exit strategy.
"I was looking spending about 75 hours of the Christmas holidays, just sitting driving, staring at the tarmac, so that that wasn't appealing at all.""We looked at that and just thought, 'This is crazy money,'" Mr Carter said.Mark Carter and his family on a previous visit to Yulara. Mr Carter said many people would not choose to live in Alice Springs if the prices continued to hike.
Mr Paterson said, in roundtable discussions with the national carrier, the airline was open to a similar resident fare, which is usually for flights between a regional centre and the capital city."It's not something that's done elsewhere around the country … but where we are located geographically, it certainly makes sense that we can extend that to Adelaide as well."
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