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VIRGIN BLUE TO CONSIDER USING ASSETS, STAFF FROM ANSETT: BRANSON.
CANBERRA, March 1 Asia Pulse - Budget airline Virgin Blue will look at employing more staff and buying assets from collapsed competitor Ansett - but not if it pushed costs up too much, its boss Richard Branson said today.
"We are looking at the assets," Mr Branson told the Nine Network.
"What we have to sum up is what's the price we're going to pay for the assets and what will that do to airfares.
"Over the next four or five days we will debate those issues internally, we'll debate it with members of the public, we'll do the figures and we'll decide which way to go forward."
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