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Old 26th May 2009, 05:02 PM
Marty H Marty H is offline
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Originally Posted by Ash W View Post
It is the freight that allows the airline to offer the cheap tickets.
If airlines are relying on freight to lower their fares then they are going about it the wrong way. Freight for pax airlines is a bonus, ultimately they are a pax airline and should be running the airline to make profit through passenger revenue.


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Also coming from the top end a lot of it would be perishiable items, so maybe not viable to leave it.
Hmmm possible but I dont think so as QF's B738's are fitted with both forward and rear 'magic carpet' and seafood cannot be loaded onto the 'magic carpet'.