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    Pets in the Cabin - Coming soon on Virgin Australia

    Evacuation rules are that you leave hand luggage behind. This would include pets. As sad as it is that's the rules and the importance was highlighted in the recent Japan incident where most likely everyone survived because no-one took any luggage off board. (If they were in the cargo hold, it...
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    How to book Velocity Amex free flight?

    Contact Velocity 1300 153 006, which was mentioned in post 3 of this thread.
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    Velocity 20% bonus points on transfers offer - November 2023 to January 2024

    For me my points also didn't land. NAB, auto transfers. Have followed them up.
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    Jayne Hrdlicka to resign as CEO

    Surely people who buy shares do exactly the same thing?
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    Jayne Hrdlicka to resign as CEO

    Unsure what you mean. But it's publicly known they have all already received their investment back in full. If it's a profitable airline I had no idea why people think it will be sold. Just as well keep running it and make more $$$.
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    Virgin Australian "Trade Sale" - who would be best?

    Why? They have failed with really every airline they have dabbled in. Essentially spun SilkAir back into the main airline and Scoot seems to be doing OK and probably because they allow a Scoot / SIA joint booking.
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    VA Cancellations, Delays growing?

    If VA didn't do this, there would be no competition on the route and the airfare on Qantas would go through the roof. It's not as if it's a long flight and the Saab is fine. Though each to their own.
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    Platinum devalued [Hard to Effectively Use Platinum Upgrades]

    When it gets installed. On the other page there's comments of delays getting approvals. Ideally they would have installed with the seating to refurb to save rolling to aircraft back in for engineering work. Aviation approvals are very slow. If I remember right, the last one or two a330's had...
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    Platinum devalued [Hard to Effectively Use Platinum Upgrades]

    Velocity is a separate company to Virgin Australia. It has it's own CEO, totally separate from the airline. (This was more highlighted when Virgin Australia went into administration and Velocity had given the airline a secured loan.) In terms of your comments around the business class...
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    Jayne Hrdlicka to resign as CEO

    In terms of an airline that's pretty much nothing. That's almost a quarter of the capex spend on the new aircraft seating to put into perspective.
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    Jayne Hrdlicka to resign as CEO

    To note, CEO's are appointed by the board. CEO's are not appointed by shareholders or noteholders in line with the ownership model of Virgin Australia.
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    Platinum devalued [Hard to Effectively Use Platinum Upgrades]

    Which is the exact promotion they are running. Everything is devalued when a promotion ends. (Prior covid it was always a flexi fare with reward seat availability, there have been various promotions since covid.) I think must of us expect for this promotion to be changed so it's actually part...
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    General VA Lounge Discussion (2021 onwards)

    Well at least there was food and drink. It's called a lounge because it's lounge / snack food. Go to a basic buffet and you'll notice similar there.
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