Virgin Australia to Reconfigure 737 Fleet - Spend $110M

[Saab34]

Found it on Temu. $9.83

 

[serfty]

Found it on Temu. $9.83

Then it'll be $983,000 in +++ for approval to fit it on an aircraft.

 

[MooTime]

Emirates has the onboard showers.

Virgin has the onboard shower curtain.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

There was no other alternative. It's purely to do with cabin crew surveillance, casa requirements etc.

I get that. I was thinking the same thing as the first photo from this article on AFF: Why Airlines Love European Business Class

The curtains over the seat backs could have been equally transparent in nature as the main curtain.

I wonder why CASA has different requirements for curtains on narrow vs wide bodies?

 

[Saab34]

Just CASA being CASA.

 

[anat0l]

Just CASA being CASA.

Curtains
Appropriate for
Showers?
Affirmative!

 

[docjames]

There was no other alternative. It's purely to do with cabin crew surveillance, casa requirements etc.

I just don’t understand what was wrong with the rope……

 

[twinaisle]

I just don’t understand what was wrong with the rope……

The curtain is more of a visual block

 

[docjames]

The curtain is more of a visual block

Indeed, although my past lived experience was the rope worked quite well. Guess it lost its effect after a while…..

 

[TMP]

I just don’t understand what was wrong with the rope……

The rope needed the divider, and the divider was removed to fit new seats and change the row configuration.

 

[jakeseven7]

I just don’t understand what was wrong with the rope……

I constantly saw people moving the rope and going through to the front toilet.

Just like we will see people marching through the plastic shower curtain I’m sure. You can’t manage for all idiots

I have a tonne of VA2 flights coming up so will look out for the Temu equipped jets

 

[Scarlett]

Magic rope - class
Shower curtain - less so.

But as has been mentioned, without the cabin dividers to hide the magnets in, the rope was no longer an option. Capitalism wins.

 

[anat0l]

Magic rope - class
Shower curtain - less so.

But as has been mentioned, without the cabin dividers to hide the magnets in, the rope was no longer an option. Capitalism wins.

Maybe they could have put the rope higher across the floating divider? (The floating divider ends would need to have a flat surface so that the rope can be attached to it)

They could even sew a fabric sign that hangs from the rope, e.g. "Business Class only beyond this point: no, that's not you..."

 

[Mocha]

I wish Qantas would install curtains. Although the crew announce to Economy passengers to use the toilets at the back of the plane, a lot of the passengers (especially the first couple of rows) ignore it and use the Business class toilet at the front

 

[chooms]

Not sure if this is part of the reconfig or not, but I’m 3 from 3 flights with an aircraft change in the past week where row 5 was showing as Economy X, only to get on board and find it isn’t Economy X, inc a PER-BNE horror show where the extra room was anticipated.

First world problems, but row 5 either A or F were my go to seats as a WP but now I’m thinking I change to try and at least get some consistency from VA.

 

[serfty]

First world problems, but row 5 either A or F were my go to seats as a WP but now I’m thinking I change to try and at least get some consistency from VA.

I guess 4A/4F may fix that.

Many years ago Qantas had 737's configured with different over wing exit row numbers and late swaps caused much angst once PAX boarded.

 

[chooms]

I guess 4A/4F may fix that.

Many years ago Qantas had 737's configured with different over wing exit row numbers and late swaps caused much angst once PAX boarded.

5A and 5F were the go to because they aligned with the windows perfectly with good shoulder room. Like I said… first world problem

 

[serfty]

5A and 5F were the go to because they aligned with the windows perfectly with good shoulder room. Like I said… first world problem

I see what you mean.

Old Layout:
v
New Rows:

 

[Harrison_133]

Looks like Row 5 is no longer being sold as Economy X.

All of my upcoming bookings show Row 5 as a normal row, and a dummy booking on the VA website shows the same.