Cheap seats are back for tourists wanting to fly to WA’s top end
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Cheap seats are back for tourists wanting to fly to WA’s top end

The subsidies can knock between $400 to $500 off a one-way flight,with some of the new cheap fares already advertised.

  • byHamish Hastie

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