freediver wrote on Jun 27
th, 2010 at 5:06pm:
Quote:6 hours to Sydney by train and 90 minutes to Sydney by plane....
90 minutes? Are you sure about that? What about security, early check in, the taxi to and from the CBD?
Quote:The tracks are already there.....so they're sort of like roads.....
Both roads and tracks need maintenance.
Quote:The running costs for a flight over the Wagga-Sydney run would be at least twice that a train would cost over the same trip..
Are you making the facts up as you go along, or do you actually know what it costs?
No I meant JUST 'flight time'.....security, check in etc isn't much more than 30-60 minutes......or wasn't, the last time I flew to Sydney....of course the 'security' back then was.."Are you a suicide bomber..Y/N???
Still, I'm sure the security/check-in is much the same for a train as it is for a plane......
No, I'm 'not' 100% sure on the costs.....but the pilots get paid almost twice what train drivers do...and the aviation fuel is a lot more than diesel, and I'm pretty sure the insurance is a whole lot more for a plane than it is for a train...After all if a wheel falls of a train, you 'might' have a death...but most likely a few injuries......however if a wing falls of a plane, you have 40-50 deaths...you must admit, that would mean the insurance premiums are MUCH higher for a plane......