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Unread 24-01-2013, 11:40   #14
James Howard
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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson View Post
DART is assigned priority as its close to 40% of Irish Rail's business and there is little scope to recover if a delay occurs, so holding a train in Howth Junction will mean late arrival Bray which in turn ripples back
What does this 40% figure mean? Is this by numbers of passengers, revenue or profit (as if)? If by revenue, then the priority is justified - if by number of passengers it is not really justified as the Enterprise first class passenger is going to pay about 30 times the price of a DART ticket. In any normal business, this customer would thus be 30 times as important.
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