Vic: Reduced flights to Melbourne may result from airport row

AAP General News (Australia)
02-03-2000
Vic: Reduced flights to Melbourne may result from airport row

By Peter Barber, State Political Correspondent

MELBOURNE, Feb 3 AAP - Melbourne has not only lost Virgin's regional headquarters -
the new airline may reduce its service to the city as its battle with Tullamarine Airport
worsens.

Premier Steve Bracks received his first piece of bad economic news in Davos, Switzerland,
when Virgin boss Richard Branson phoned last night to tell him the airline would base
its headquarters in Brisbane.

Virgin was unhappy with the cost and design of the terminal offered by the Melbourne
Airport, …