However, from disgust at repeated increases in fares and fees and also at repeated strikes in the JNR lines in the decade starting in 1975, customers using the Kintetsu limited expresses, instead of the Shinkansen line, increased between Nagoya and Osaka, centered on the non-business customers who were not focused on the traveling time.
しかし、昭和50年代には、国鉄の頻発する運賃・料金の値上げとストライキに対する嫌気から、名古屋-大阪間においては、特に急がない個人客を中心に、新幹線から近鉄特急への乗客移行が多く見られた。