Air thought

It’s odd that I can fly from Melbourne to Sydney for $100 and yet the cab ride from the city to the airport cost me $60.

Something isn’t quite right there.

Our cabs are about 3x more expensive than they should because of government taxes and regulations as well as some self-serving cartel like behaviour within the industry.

If the taxi ride to the airport was the $20 is should be this means that air travel is 6.2x cheaper than taxi travel on a per km basis.

Which seem about right given that a plane is just a really efficient bus in the air.