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Well it’s costing them revenue, my old folks who travel international probably twice a year in cash paid premium cabins, who only flew QF, no longer do because I’ve told them the reliability is rubbish. When I was booking for them last month they sort of didn’t believe me, I pulled up the Flight...

Going back over the data it’s been a while since QF had a good week on the International front. Every week is now just littered with issues across the fleet. They are going to need to bite the bullet and pull back capacity to have more spares available. They can’t continue at this rate until...

You will be safe with March. They said from Feb onwards, allow 6 weeks, the no doubt another two weeks when it arrives back home as engineers and flight ops run the ruler over it. Probably be April onwards one might get the first flight in.

Being done in HKG?

Back open again. Let’s see what plays out over the coming weeks.

I’m expecting something to be done with Iran soon, probably this week.

The CEO spoke to this at last year’s analyst briefing. They will go either way and it all depends on what is happening on the debt market. He said there was some very attractive rates on offer. He made the point clear that Virgin will simply do what’s in the best financial interest of the...

According to PPrune seems like a A220 ADL base is about to be announced.

I have never even noted this, thanks. Surprised they don’t charge a premium for just this row. Explains why on a recent flight I noted passengers in this row get kicked out and the moved some older frail passengers in the row who had mobility issues. The moved passengers didn’t seem impressed.

12,000 points for $130 spend each week for 4 weeks. 1200 on sunscreen, skincare over $20 spend X2 points all shops

On the flip side, a smaller fleet and tight capacity might make them exit the fleet sooner.

I recall he said at the FY results on the briefing , is a chance deliveries might slip either side of the FY pending delays from the manufacturer. We are talking only a month here or there. Bring on the -10!

See the prospectus or FY Results from later last year for fleet timeframes

All the old Virgin -700s mostly went to Southwest, a few went to some Euro operators who scrapped them during the pandemic. Southwest was still operating all the ex VA -700s, they have just retired them in the last year, the last one actually exited service earlier this week, most left the...

Many other carriers conduct a greater level of engineering in house and at a larger base, much easier to swap out aircraft, likewise easier to source parts and conduct the work. That all flows down to better reliability. Emirates can probably fix an issue overnight while Qantas would need a week...

I wonder if the rapid exit was due to Alliance waning to renegotiate its contracts. -700 is the workhorse for intra QLD. They never should have retired so many back in the day.

Perhaps they are being set aside for the -10 From another forum. Upcoming deliveries. 8VG SN67037- 25kThrust 8VH SN67038- 25kThrust 8VI SN67039 - 25kThrust 8VD SN67040 -28kThrust 8VE SN67041 - 28kThrust 8VF SN67044 - 25kThrust 8IL SN67042 - 25kThrust 8IM SN67045 - 25kThrust 8IO SN67046 -...

73M VH-8VG registered with CASA this week.

I think being quieter than usual the driver was trying to pull back some lost revenue due to the PH. Fare looking at some past trips would normally be around the $100 ish mark sometimes more. Sucks but I’ve seen this behaviour right around the world.

Waste of money perhaps but nothing new. The Victorian government handed out millions to international carriers, namely the middle eastern giants, to simply bring back normal schedules post Covid, something they would have done anyway. Then we have Jetstar being funded at Avalon. NSW has loaded...