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Melbourne to Brisbane VA319.

Have never seen so much cough around the air vents/lights today in my life while on a VA 737. Is this a sign of average maintenance? A filter needs changing? Looks somewhat disconcerting:

VA319 MEL-BNE breakfast. Omelette with smoked salmon pieces on top. Very nice, needs seasoning - salt and pepper gets it over the line. Alternate was bircher muesli, also a good choice.

This Dr Tim guy is one of the reasons we spend a lot of effort minimising our tax.

Re: Easy fix for VA - new 737 J class! Indeed. Just put new versions of those seats 737 fleet-wide - with IFE screens. Done, move onto next problem. Otherwise folks will again be complaining that they booked J in SYD-PER and ended up with the regular J and not the transcon J when irrops...

Don't waste any more time on it, just get your card provider to pull a charge-back. VA are just as bad as well when things go awry.

One call to Amex would have sorted them out. But yeah, it isn't 1980 anymore. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbs6xL3FilM

From SCMP: More at: Elderly flight passenger throws coins into engine for ‘luck’, delays take-off for hours | South China Morning Post

Watched it last week. Lookes like a good QF ad. Interesting that the woman who didn't fly that much (actress/muso?) got an upgrade to J. And they left F alone completely.

MEL-CBR VA289 Dinner - beef short rib, quite nice. Cheese was way off. Strawberry polenta cake in a box was blergh. 1F had mushroom soup: You could have chicken on top if desired. Tasted OK. For such a short flight the service was good, however if you plan to eat make sure you're in row 1...

That's a whole box of awesome, but with VA ditching the aircraft type we can only dream. Then again I'm still waiting for footrests in 737 J.

Re: Virgin, the modern day Robin Hood. Taking row 3 from platinums and giving it to a VA needs cash. Cold hard cash from passengers. I wonder what their next revenue-raising idea will be?

re: VA to HKG from mid 2017 [From Where?] I wonder how they will handle any IRROPS out of HKG? However this is a great step. I hope they can offer some decent catering in Y and have plenty of reward seats. Lounge access ex-MEL could be flaky, I suspect it will be T2 domestic before security...

Re: Left Bose QuiteComfort 35 headphones on a Virgin Australia Brisbane to Sydney fli Brown stuff happens. If you leave your headphones in the seat pocket of (say) row 7 and someone from row 15 follows you, they could just pick them up and keep walking. Please note that I don't think people...

That's about normal. Just write it off to an accident and move on. Any energy expended on this would be wasted.

I don't. Classes exist for a reason and we're glad for it. We pay much much more in points/dollars to have a nice quiet flight experience where waiting is for other people, from check-in to collecting the bags at the destination. The last thing I want is some first-time flyer interrupting my G&T...

Total long shot - if you take the train between Brisbane and Caboolture, just before Carseldine on your right there is an auto wreckers. Inside you can/could see an old Bedford Ansett (with the last logo faded away) stair truck.

So when the dust settles in a few months they can quietly forget about it and save the money. Remember the trial of hot meals on the domestic triangle? Talk up a storm - then do 1% of it ... then wander off and forget.

The alt was mushroom soup with/without bacon.

VA823 MEL-SYD Breakfast. Bircher muesli, very nice. VA858 SYD-MEL, snack. Vietnamese tacos. Complete fail. Do not order this dish. Very acidic liquid in bottom of bowl prevents making a "taco" from stale, burnt soft quesadillas. With cheese and an Anzac biscuit. I think this service was...