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Here are the new Amex Velocity credit cards
Nov 06, 2024, 08:16 AMIronic that Virgin is making lounge access harder to get with its move to 'spend-based status earning' but at the same time giving lounge access to anyone who plonks down $440 for this Amex card! I reckon the two go hand-in-hand, Virgin knows that making lounge access part of the Amex card benefi...
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Virgin Australia set to axe Etihad partnership?
Nov 05, 2024, 07:43 AMI can't see that happening at all, as mentioned below, the Hawaiian board is on the way out, plus it doesn't seem to make sense that Alaska would invest in Virgin when it has closer ties to Qantas & OneWorld.
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Big changes coming to Virgin’s Singapore Airlines partnership
Nov 04, 2024, 05:10 PMThis is a real shame, my Dad is a pretty loyal VA flyer and loves SQ too, so he'd earn VA points on both and then burn them on SQ business or premium economy award seats to the UK. Was talking to him about this change last week and he's not impressed, as it takes a bit of the shine off the VA-SQ ...
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Qantas inflight meals: what do you want on the menu?
Oct 09, 2024, 01:42 PMI get that Qantas wants to continue being a 'full service' airline compared to Virgin, that every economy passenger gets something that passes for a meal or at least a snack, but I wonder what the response would be if Qantas introduced a new cheaper domestic 'Economy Lite' fare which had no meal ...
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Qantas inflight meals: what do you want on the menu?
Oct 09, 2024, 01:37 PMIt's definitely tough on the crew, who are also working in a very small space with limited facilities on the 737, but I don't think anybody is asking for scrambled eggs for all 174 passengers, just the 12 passengers in business class.And this is one of my biggest concerns for the Qantas A321XLR i...
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Qantas Lounge Access for guests
Jul 15, 2020, 02:14 PMPrevious ET articles on the reopening of Qantas lounges have quoted Qantas as saying that any guests must be travelling on the same flight as you. The 'usual entitlement' doesn't apply right now because of the need to limit lounge capacity according to social distancing laws.
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Would Virgin use its 777's for transcontinential if economics were viable?
Jul 05, 2020, 10:31 AMOriginally Posted by Dan22 Its a worthwhile thought and I wonder if new owners would run the economics of such a scenario. It got me thinking that since a330s will go, there's at minimum 4x 777s that VA own. It costs money to let these aircraft just sit there - maintenance, cycling of fuel throug...
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Would Virgin use its 777's for transcontinential if economics were viable?
Jul 05, 2020, 10:27 AMThe short answer is YES, Virgin Australia would certainly use its Boeing 777s for east-west flights if the economics stacked up. Airlines are a business and it pretty much all comes down to economics. Qantas would use A380s for east-west flights if those economics stacked up, too. But to make tho...
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Virgin Australia launches 'Basic Economy' fare
Jan 23, 2020, 03:45 PMOriginally Posted by planesa380 Virgin's “Light Fare” does not equal economy basic it still has a bag. It's more a new promo fare bucket to improve yields (think happy hour tickets and other promos). It will create more favourable terms to the airline for people who just want a cheap ticket and a...
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Virgin Australia launches 'Basic Economy' fare
Jan 23, 2020, 03:02 PMVery interesting but not much of a 'saving'.