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I have been flying VA a fair bit lately and the PA is as you say "2 toilets for rows 3-30 in the rear of the aircraft" and seems pretty standard announcement now but its part of a much longer spiel and I suspect the length and number of these spiels with very repetitive and boring information...

And it would be nice if they could even operate their schedule on time as well. I don't know if it is crew shortages or aircraft shortages but I havent seen many VA domestic flights on time at all after about 3pm on any weekday lately. Their OTP stats will be in the toilet when the next set of...

Just to close this out, I had my State Dept of Fair Trading come back after some back and forth between them and a Virgin representative, with an offer from Virgin for a "goodwill gesture" of the value of the difference plus a small amount for my time. The more important "win" for me is seeing...

Yeah - its not a huge amount of money for me in this case, but its the principle of how things are displayed on airline websites was why I was making the effort. As I said before - the T&C's in an email are irrelevant for a customer that wasn't even aware of the promotion at the time. Virgin...

Just as an update here, the relevant State Fair Trading body is still in the process of dealing with this complaint, I don't hold out much hope of a clear win, as others on here have made the point that the word "From" may be a loophole that merchants can drive a bus through, but I did notice...

If I'm not mistaken Gilbert & Tobin have acted on behalf of Virgin Australia for quite a while, but also have had Qatar Airways as their client?

Interesting, as well as the perception that its an 'orphan aircraft type rating' plus the obvious lower pay, do you think it might be something about the bases for A220 pilots? All their bases of SYD BNE CBR HBA and MEL have all seen astronomical price rises in real estate and are expensive...

Nicely put and simple economic equation to work off, maybe changing that number to say $20 per Qantas Status Credit might be a decent 'rule of thumb' for people unable to do last minute or plan a year in advance leirure flights or status runs and/or flying BFOD Y a lot, as you say, a simplified...

Hi all - sorry for the stupid/obvious question, but I have an existing Amex Card (an old legacy Suncorp issued one if I am not mistaken) that is still open, but thinking of closing it soon. Am I right in that if I successfully apply for a new American Express Velocity Platinum card with the...

Yeah obviously some disconnect between Virgin management and Virgin cabin crew about this, the original dividers with magnetic ropes did work well and was intentional in design, I am sure that cabin crew would have brought this up when the first dividerless aircraft turned up and then as the...

Totally different on Charter flights put on by the company, in most cases now charter flights won't have any alcohol available on-board for various reasons, and acting like a d@^khead on board will be passed onto company HR so any misbehaviour won't last long. Obviously, some FIFO workers also...

Its difficult to screenshot the entire seat selection page on PC as its fairly lengthy, the length of a B737 in fact. I thought my screenshot at the top of that page covered the relevant seat pricing info and selection. Obviously in hindsight I should have taken more screenshots, and this is...

Yes, in my case I hadn't seen the promo email and was unaware of it. I simply saw what looked like a temporary reduction of Economy X seat selection fees at the time of booking. Note there is no explanatory text differentiating Economy X sests from Exit Row seats in the descriptor legend to the...

Qantas goes bolshie and is now the champion of pilots and crew pay and working conditions! Thats news to me.

Thanks all - I did not even see the little red circle star symbols when I was booking. Interesting to see that the word "From" could be such a loophole for situations like this. Splitting hairs about the front rows of Economy X with Exit row seating and the way the website is designed would...

Hello all, I have started a minor dispute with Virgin about the advertised price of some Economy X seats that were selected and paid on the evening of the 31st of October 2024, just two passengers on a one-way domestic economy booking on the Virgin website. Long story short, there was some sort...

I don't know why they persist with Sprint races and especially in Brazil with its very chancey/dicey weather it seems like they are trying to fit too much in an F1 weekend, I know there are good overtaking opportunities on-track in Brazil and the drivers love the track, that why the FIA probably...

I can sort of see your logic there if these changes are from QR, but from what I see, if these changes have negatives and are targeted at people who fly VA international partners a lot—say people flying SQ EY or DL internationally a lot—and thus qualifying for Velocity status, then these people...

I would not be too concerned about the F100s, if you account for age of the aircraft and number of flying hours/service hstory or wanted to go for stats like fatalities per mile flown, the fairly new B737-Max family's brief time in the air has already killed more people than the 30 years history...

Yeah - seems to be an overall strategy of surrendering anything nice and premium about the airline and moving downmarket towards Jetstar. Now I know that Covid and the administration process has a lot to do with this, but have a look at where VA is now compared to where it was and see if its an...