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...
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 $$$.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...