Availability aboard VA

[Deleted member 29185]

Just booking a rtn BNE-ROK for within the next week and I see oodles of seats (on the return sector, apart from the first 3 blocked rows, there are only 2 seats booked on an Ejet) and fares around $80.

Wonder how badly VA are hurting financially? Usually heads roll after the magnitude of this stuff up. It's been more akin to rolling out barbed wire rather than red carpet!

So whos head is on the block I wonder?

 

[KCMil]

You can not use the seat selection map as a guide to seats sold. It merely means that only two people have selected a specific seat.

 

[pat25d]

1 flight with availability and the airline is failing?

 

[Deleted member 29185]

1 flight with availability and the airline is failing?

Nope, the (multiple) flights with HEAPS of availability is simply an observance. However, annoying their hard won QF converts sees them back at square one!

Oh, minus all the money they spent getting to this point.

I also cannot see any mention in my post (or KCMils post) of anything that even resembles a discussion about a failing airline.

You may think I wish to see VA fail for some twisted pleasure. The truth could not be further from that. I am somewhat bemused though, that VA shat on many of their loyal customers whilst bending over backward to win over the QF elite and now they seem desperate to give them all back and guess who they'll expect to be there propping them up? .............hence the "heads usually roll" quip..........or do you think that whoever is responsible for this monumental stumble should be patted on the head and given a cigar? The corporate world I know doesn't work that way......but then again, the corporate world I know doesn't get paid mega-bonuses for failures like the big end of town seem to.

 

[Jama]

However, annoying their hard won QF converts sees them back at square one!

They gave status away freely to everyone else once before, whilst sticking to the letter of the law for existing loyal customers I might add. Do you really think they wouldn't do it again !

 

[goingboeing]

To their credit however, Virgin did promise to "bring the magic back" when they rebranded as Virgin Australia back in 2011. We should all be in awe of this latest trick... one minute full planes, the next, plenty of room. Who says there isn't still magic at the village

 

[markis10]

Considering JQ could not make ROK work its a credit that VA have stuck with it, although their service to GLT has probably taken away the price sensitive traffic that used to drive to ROK, many of my customers used to do it for the significant saving it offered over taking QFLink for $200 more, on the same plane from ROK.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Considering JQ could not make ROK work its a credit that VA have stuck with it, although their service to GLT has probably taken away the price sensitive traffic that used to drive to ROK, many of my customers used to do it for the significant saving it offered over taking QFLink for $200 more, on the same plane from ROK.

I'm going to GLT too. I'd just prefer to fly into ROK and drive, than sit on an ATR pig. The GLT fares are cheap too!