Virgin Australia flights to Doha

Wondering if VA21 (Perth - Doha) is going to take off as planned on Thursday following the closed airspace and the subsequent disruptions taking they have been ferrying in the aircraft via KL for the Sydney and Brisbane inaugurals.

They could start with VA22 (Doha - Perth) on Friday.

(The fix would be to keep the A380 running and bump everyone onto the QR tagged flight).

Time will tell.
Looks like A7-BEL has been assigned for VA21

 
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Interesting… PointHacks is saying VA ‘could have engaged almost any airline in the world to do this [VA1/2] flying for them. But they have chosen the QSuite planes from QR.

I thought this was because QR bought 25% of VA?
 
Interesting… PointHacks is saying VA ‘could have engaged almost any airline in the world to do this [VA1/2] flying for them. But they have chosen the QSuite planes from QR.

I thought this was because QR bought 25% of VA?
But how many of the 'could have engaged almost any airline in the world' category would have paid close to a $Billion$ for a 24% cut of the pie?

I dare say not too many.

QR have the cash, wanted the slots and wanted to stick it to Qantas a little.
 
Other way around. It’s Qatar engaging Virgin for the services but advertised the other way around.

Qantas has remained mute on this one. I somewhat think Alan would have kicked up a stink.
 
Other way around. It’s Qatar engaging Virgin for the services but advertised the other way around.

Qantas has remained mute on this one. I somewhat think Alan would have kicked up a stink.
Agree re Qatar engaging Virgin. PointHacks clearly don’t understand what’s going on.

Qantas wasn’t exactly mute though, they did put in a submission to the ACCC.
 

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