Virgin Australia Red-Eye Questions.

[brad330]

Currently Virgin Australia Operates Red-Eye Flights Between The Following City Pairs:
-PER-BNE
-PER-SYD
-PER-MEL
-DRW-BNE
-BNE-DRW
To My Surprise Virgin Australia Does Not Operate A330 Aircraft On PER-SYD and PER-MEL. Why Is This? These Flight Are Where The Aircraft Are Needed Most (For Business Passengers) It Seems Logic To Operate Red-Eyes Where Possible To Increase Aircraft Useage. I Wonder How Red-Eyes Would Work On The Following Routes? (Qantas or Virgin) Increasing Aircraft Utelisations:
-BNE-PER
0005 BNE-0400 PER (05H55M)
-CNS-MEL
0035 CNS-0400 MEL (03H25M)
Cheers Brad.

 

[drewbles]

Virgin don't yet have many A330's. I guess they're keeping them busy enough now with day time traffic attempting to entice the J traveller. As they get more, it's possible you'll see more of these red eye's coming up.

Personally, I'll never fly one ever again. I've done dozens upon dozens of PER-MEL/SYD red eyes, following a w/end visiting home, and having to head straight to work. With the constant tail winds on the E-W segments, you can make PER-MEL in a touch over 2 1/2 hours. Add DST in, and it's a nightmare. Also painful for holiday makers. They arrive not able to check into their hotel for some time and being half asleep.

But it's cheap most the time I gues

 

[Jousams]

Currently Virgin Australia Operates Red-Eye Flights Between The Following City Pairs:
-PER-BNE
-PER-SYD
-PER-MEL
-DRW-BNE
-BNE-DRW
To My Surprise Virgin Australia Does Not Operate A330 Aircraft On PER-SYD and PER-MEL. Why Is This? These Flight Are Where The Aircraft Are Needed Most (For Business Passengers) It Seems Logic To Operate Red-Eyes Where Possible To Increase Aircraft Useage. I Wonder How Red-Eyes Would Work On The Following Routes? (Qantas or Virgin) Increasing Aircraft Utelisations:
-BNE-PER
0005 BNE-0400 PER (05H55M)
-CNS-MEL
0035 CNS-0400 MEL (03H25M)
Cheers Brad.

I read somewhere that all C2C flights will be a330 before christmas.


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[DJ737]

You forgot MEL0145-DRW0545 X7 4h30

 

[drewbles]

I read somewhere that all C2C flights will be a330 before christmas.


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That sounds not quite right. They won't have enough a/c to do PER to MEL, SYD and BNE with the current frequencies they have, and allowing for a/c rotations for maintenance. Perhaps most though (which i'm looking forward to as I do MEL-PER route the most domestically).

 

[oz_mark]

That sounds not quite right. They won't have enough a/c to do PER to MEL, SYD and BNE with the current frequencies they have, and allowing for a/c rotations for maintenance. Perhaps most though (which i'm looking forward to as I do MEL-PER route the most domestically).

I saw this reported, but I had also seen anothor report that one of the two routes (PER-MEL or PER-SYD) would be all A330, which seemed a bit more likely to me.

 

[Jousams]

That sounds not quite right. They won't have enough a/c to do PER to MEL, SYD and BNE with the current frequencies they have, and allowing for a/c rotations for maintenance. Perhaps most though (which i'm looking forward to as I do MEL-PER route the most domestically).

Sorry,
I wasn't including Brisbane.
Only cities with current c2c services.
But ausbt had an article last week about it.


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[Simo]

Red Eyes can cause some problems with curfews.

I remember coming into Sydney before curfew and we had to do circuits.

We had a really good tail wind.

 

[KCMil]

5 days ago it was reported in several media outlets that Mr Borghetti had announced that MEL-PER and SYD - PER would be exclusively A330 services by christmas this year. How remains to be seen!
The first report I saw it on was ausbt site.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Considering how they're pricing last-minute fares most of the time on PER-SYD/MEL, not to mention special fares and happy hours for double figure pricing, I remain skeptical of Virgin's financial performance on the aforementioned routes

 

[trooper]

I'm Just Curious Why Brad Starts Every Word With A Capital Letter! (Man, that is hard to type... Does it happen automatically on some device or other?? Annoying if so..)

 

[Mogul]

Considering how they're pricing last-minute fares most of the time on PER-SYD/MEL, not to mention special fares and happy hours for double figure pricing, I remain skeptical of Virgin's financial performance on the aforementioned routes

Keep in mind it's the low season, having said that most flights seem to be pretty full.

 

[lovestotravel]

Keep in mind it's the low season, having said that most flights seem to be pretty full.

A full flight is not always a profitable flight.......

 

[Sprucegoose]

A full flight is not always a profitable flight.......

No but it's a good start!


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[Must...Fly!]

Keep in mind it's the low season, having said that most flights seem to be pretty full.

Been happening for a while, it's not a newer phenomenon. Just curious is all...as lovetotravel says a full flight doesn't mean a profitable flight. N