RWC seems like it's going to be a bit of a financial disaster for New Zealand.
Not only are there 1000's of seats between OZ & NZL when Wallabies playing, there are thousands of frequent flyer seats.
Admittedly the CHC earthquake didn't help, but also greed seems to have got in the way.
Rather than have earlybird deals, prices started out very high & now lots left unsold.
Saw the other day that someone was selling 1/4 final games in WLG with accommodation on a contra basis, meaning they can't sell them for cash.
Bloody hard to get flights to WLG though for these games, as only a few extra flights have been put on, but you can get Qantas ff seats into CHC or AKL & then buy tickets from there to WLG or PMR I guess.
Suggest that RWC organisers might have to give tickets away FREE to all games (except All Black games) to local school kids to get a decent crowd to the games.
Last edited by Andrew Johnson; 12th August 2011 at 10:51 AM.
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