[Scott Loveday]

Folks,

Does it make the papers because Australians in general still aren't used to the concept of Low Cost Travel, or more specifically, the whole concept of a low cost airline? Compared with the US and Europe, it's still a relatively new concept for Australia.

Remember that a great number of the Australian public have only ever experienced the (relatively) full service of Qantas, Ansett and TAA over the years. These are the only comparisons they can draw. To many of these people, and airline is an airline. Differences are semantic in their eyes.

I believe this sort of stuff will eventually disappear once the low cost revolution has become an Australian norm.

Apart from the same old on TV shows like Airline or Airport, I hardly see anything being written about this type of incident as a 'news' article in the US or Europe.