Virgin CNS-MEL redeye

[BRIS_VA_HAWK]

I've done PER-BNE once when I needed to be back in BNE for work the next morning and didn't want to kill half my day flying. Paid $100-ish for J upgrade and the recliner was sufficient for some shut eye after a . Not to everyone's taste obviously, but enough people do it and it's one of the few flights that can be justified as a red eye.

 

[PERLHR]

When in Perth and going beyond Sydney or Melbourne and Brisbane, it's often significantly cheaper taking a red eye out...and a couple of hours to transfer (be it domestic or international at MEL or SYD and be at final destination within the VA network as example, by noon. It's a way of life out west.....the time difference is often a killer in losing a day for day time flights and then an added hotel overnighter at a location you don't really want to be. . Welcome to our world ..