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A quick weekend trip to see a friend before he departs permanently for the UK gave me another opportunity to sample the Virgin Blue service. Rather than write two fairly similar posts, I figured I'd condense things in to one post. Here goes:

DJ889 MEL/SYD
Equipment: 73H
Seat: 5D
Timeliness: Early*

After finishing up work on the Friday evening, I Skybus'ed it out to MEL and made a beeline for the lounge. I'm still not convinced of the benefits of ...

Check In

• Attempted check-in on iPhone, colossal fail. Going to virginblue.com.au redirects to m-test.virginblue.internal, no great surprise that I can't access that. What the..?
• Unable to check in from within my Velocity account. Not necessarily a problem, but why not?
• Couldn't check in using Velocity number; system couldn't find me? Not sure why.
• Managed to find the booking using the PNR - offered 6C, but can't actually see anything forward of row 9 on the seat map. Odd. No great

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