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Leasing costs for new MAX 8 are something stupid like 600k/month at the moment, AUD. These days there is no cheap ‘deals’. Seen large spikes in all other areas be it engineering, ground ops, airport fees, and obviously wages. Fuel is about the only area that has somewhat kept itself at bay...

Hopefully they order more and start popping up on some east coast runs. They are super quiet apparently. I’d say intra QLD they would be of use.

Where on earth is all the money coming from?

No photos yet?

Half expecting VA to drop this route. Low Yield market to Low Yield, then the LCC comes along and adds more seats. I reckon VA should move it to MCY.

They will do whatever the balance sheet requires at any point in time. At the moment, no issues, in the future, who the heck knows. If they need to get creative to pull in more revenue or limit rewards, then they will.

I actually think the purple is fine, and the text also. You need to be a bit unique, AFF is a unique site which is why it’s still thriving today. Good job on the upgrade.

Having a look it seems like the below Jetstar aircraft, which are all the oldest, have finished up within the last week or two. VQC ferries to BNE and parked VQF ferries to China last week. Network conversions have been done here VQJ also ferried to China last week to VQK ferried to Seletar...

I have a suspicion that all 9 will go to Jetstar and 4 older A320s in Jetstar’s current fleet will go to Network. Same same just clever wording. Network only gets the old rust buckets, Jetstar Asia has a newer fleet, these incoming aircraft are much newer compared to anything Network has...

Certainly was a quick shutdown. Pity they couldn’t make it work, sadly after Tiger Singapore became Scoot and fleet size essentially tripled, they had no hope. Qantas playing in Singapore was no different to Singapore playing in Australia with Tiger. Stick to your knitting in your own backyard...

Would be at least a 2 weeks minimum I would have thought. If they need to send in a Boeing engineer then likely a month plus.

Bad timing to have one out of service as they just sent four away for heavy maintenance.

Found it. 13 A320Neo up to 2029. Do note they are from a ‘prior order’ from Airbus seperate to the other orders as noted in the presentation, I am fairly sure this is the order from 2011 that has been pushed out multiple times. I get the impression they didn’t really want the 320Neo but...

According to the investor presentation, that’s it for A320Neos for a while, nothing expected in FY26. It might appear that these 5 are also the only 5 that will come, I can’t see anymore detail about more coming. Only 5 321N due this FY, which is also the end of that allocation. Seems to be...

I note you can’t select seats on Virgin’s site, has this always been the case on these flights?

That’s definitely how it does it also, last few Jq flights I’ve notes most families are split up with one kid each. I assume it’s a tactic to also get people to purchase seat selection, and no doubt being in two’s not four’s helps plug some holes around those who have selected seats.

They should allocate seats if you skip that part. I’d be interested to see once you do that if it puts you together.

Never understood that. ‘Our Heart is in the country’ but we are running a full blown Melbourne to Sydney to Brisbane operation. Perhaps they should have stuck with the heart and just played in the country.

I think it could have worked, they just had the wrong people running it.

I see we are just about to tick over a year since the 737 operation collapsed. I hope everyone found new jobs and it somewhat worked out for all in the end. I wonder if we will see any new entrants in the coming years ahead.