WA inquiry unlikely to deliver cheaper regional flights, analysts and community leaders warn

Written on the 2 July 2017

A WA parliamentary inquiry into the cost of regional airfares will not deliver lower prices, according to community leaders and analysts.

Anger is building across regional areas over the price of air travel, with many residents fares have never been so high.

When the Broome-based Tick family decided to send 15-year-old Talulah away to boarding school in Perth they vowed to bring her home at the end of every term to ease the transition.

But her mother Mardi Tick now has to break that promise.

"Unfortunately the price of the airfares is so high I haven't been able to deliver on that," she said.

It spurred Ms Tick to start the Broome Airfare Action Group, campaigning for a better deal for residents.

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Source: ABC