Virgin Australia flights to Doha

[Saab34]

He did with the bilateral and the backlash for both Qantas and the government was enormous which is why we’ve now arrived at this. Had Alan stay muted on this one Qatar would have gotten its 28 extra flights without the need to pay Bain billions

I think they would have invested regardless, it really firms up a long term partner in conjunction with their greater ambitions for this market. They didn’t really have a great relationship with QF.

QR has essentially blocked anyone else getting into bed with VA, Turkish would have been a risk also. I think TK would have been a good VA partner.

 

[BrianQQ]

QR has essentially blocked anyone else getting into bed with VA, Turkish would have been a risk also. I think TK would have been a good VA partner.

TK would have been the spark of VA getting into *A. Now it's just dead.

 

[SCM]

I took VA2 the other week back to Sydney from Europe, pretty decent, just like a Qatar flight, the load was around 50-60% but definitely some people had a row to themselves and made good use out of it! Just depends on how lucky you got. Business seemed pretty full though, I was hoping for a free upgrade, but alas didn't get anything.

Sad that the upgrades were not yet live.

Also, Qatar gave me a pass for the oneworld lounge in Amsterdam airport (VA-Plat), which I thought was really cool, and the lounge is almost always got few people in it, so it was very nice to shower and relax there for free.