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Damn I missed out on getting 8 this year. I had to fight tooth and nail just to get my regular 4, they tried to tell me I only had 2 left when I had never even used one before!

How did you get 10?

I'm in a similar boat. I relied on at least one trip a year to the states in order to maintain platinum. Without that there's no way I can do it as I'm not a regular domestic traveller, maybe do only 3 or 4 domestic leisure trips in a year at most.

I wonder if this issue is treated differently in the main cabin as opposed to J. From what I've seen it's not heavily policed in J, but maybe that's because most J passengers have a drink in front of them for the majority of the flight lol

Depends what you mean? Alice Springs, Cairns, Darwin, Mackay and Perth T2 lounges didn't survive Covid. So Virgins already very limited lounge locations is now significantly weaker. Cairns and Darwin would be a pretty big blow to some members I would imagine.

I've always gotten the cheese and crackers served along with the J meal, usually with a dessert as well.

Only ever have a light laptop bag. Laptop converts into a tablet which is ideal for use during takeoff and landing.

Wish Sydney had Asahi, that would be a no brainer! Oh we have great northern too, but only in the cans lol. The bartender mentioned that the tap beers would be back in play sometime in January, but who knows how reliable that is. Food lineup is identical to what Sydney had the other day...

In that case I think I'm gonna start opting for row 1 instead of row 2. It's super annoying not getting a choice of meals, the difference in leg room is pretty negligible to me anyway.

Got mine overnight, now I need to figure out how I'm going to actually use it this time!

Not a fan of this tactic at all. They are messing their customers around intentionally, not sure how well that will work for them in the long term.

So as I suspected this is their business strategy rather than a one off occurrence. I can't really say Im on board if that's the case, it's pretty sketchy.

Nor would I. However there's a difference between doing it occasionally in a pinch and routinely employing it as an ongoing business strategy. I suspect they are advertising and selling these extra Cairns flights because it increases their sales, as it allows people to book more favourable...

No they didn't charge me anything. He said he was able to nab 2 packs from the back which is pretty cool. I'm not sure if they can do that regularly, I think he felt bad that they had run out of my first choice which was the pasta.

Tried the pies snack from economy, in J today. I had already had the chicken on the last flight so the attendant made up 2 snack packs of the pies for me instead. They weren't too bad.

Yeah that's completely different situation. I'm not talking about flights cancelled due to border restrictions.

I've noticed lately that virgin are advertising and selling seats on flights from SYD to CNS and CNS to SYD only to cancel the flights the day or night before in order to consolidate passengers on fewer direct flights. It happened to me in both directions on this trip. It's very frustrating...

I wonder for how long they will keep announcing the entire onboard snack options and pricing over the PA system. Surely everyone in economy should have a menu with all that information available to them.

SYD to CNS today the choices were chicken and rice or some kind of vegetarian pasta. We both went with the chicken. It was decent enough, and to my pleasant surprise, it seemed to be breast meat. Was definitely on the smaller side but we weren't too hungry after having something at the lounge :)

I used to have a Corona or a Calton dry, or even a tap beer would be a welcome sight and preferable to the current line up! Something refreshing, full strength, full carb and not in a can. Not a fan of ales, of which there were a couple. Maybe I'm a tad fussy lol