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Consumers nab half-price airfares, sparking fears of hotel price hikes – The Australian Financial Review
There are fears that consumers could struggle to get reasonably priced accommodation as more than 100,000 half-price airfares were snapped up by noon on Thursday….
It looks like basically everyone has bailed in, Mr Hansford said. People have been bottled up in their homes and a lot of them have been doing intrastate travel. Theyve done that now and are keen to start going interstate again.
Mr Hansford warned there was still potential for the program to fail, as hotels and tour operators needed to keep pricing sensible and also be clear when accommodation was reaching capacity.
The people who can screw this up are the hoteliers, because if families book tickets…
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