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Old Nov 22, 2016 | 6:14 pm
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macdo
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Originally Posted by Platy

Hobart is great city, but, I agree, some of those business class fares out of HBA and the southeastern city pairs do seem to to be very high and arguably hard to justify.

I guess the business revenues at those price points are a gold mine for the airlines and therefore worth protecting in terms of service levels (including toilet access!).
Recently flew to HBA from AKL. I was comfy in row 3. There was one Business passenger trans-Tasman, zero from MLB to HBA and two from HBA-MLB. OK, n=3 flights but 19% occupancy might explain high fares.
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