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So glad to see there is still some fight going on between VA and QF!
So VA, perhaps you may like a FFers perspective as a data point.
A year ago you had a J sale which was worth buying as many as I could grab. That gave you lot's of my cash into your account for free, for up to almost a year to do as you pleased.
Late last year, you reacted to the QF J sale but lumped on a hefty premium over your earlier sale fares. The result for me was that I bought a lot of QF J fares even though yours were marginally cheaper, QF has that LTG to aim at! I bought zero VA J seats.
More recently, you had your "mates rates" sale and the J fares were actually dearer than the QF J sale fares. Result? I bought zero VA J seats even though I would have liked to do so, you surpassed the limit I have to actually buy in advance. The value was lost.
Now, I see QF have a double SC offer for everyone. The result will be me buying full price QF J fares in advance so as to secure QF platinum and step closer to QF LTG.
VA has a pretty good J product and I have genuinely noticed the crew have lost their poor attitude they had 6-12 months ago and I actually prefer the VA J product simply because the spare seats are not given away adhoc like QF does. VA are also far superior at protecting the sanctity of the J cabin whereas it's very noticeable these days that QF are a free for all with the J loo and allowing J pax an unflustered de-boarding experience is just not the done thing with QF ... however, QF are certainly winning the race to take my cash and they have done so well for the last year. I'm loving the feeling of no longer being tied to one airline, so I quite genuinely ask VA, where to now? Will I see my VA platinum (already requaled for this year), disappear in future simply because you are not keeping up with the competitor or will you come out of your corner swinging with some real competition again?
So VA, perhaps you may like a FFers perspective as a data point.
A year ago you had a J sale which was worth buying as many as I could grab. That gave you lot's of my cash into your account for free, for up to almost a year to do as you pleased.
Late last year, you reacted to the QF J sale but lumped on a hefty premium over your earlier sale fares. The result for me was that I bought a lot of QF J fares even though yours were marginally cheaper, QF has that LTG to aim at! I bought zero VA J seats.
More recently, you had your "mates rates" sale and the J fares were actually dearer than the QF J sale fares. Result? I bought zero VA J seats even though I would have liked to do so, you surpassed the limit I have to actually buy in advance. The value was lost.
Now, I see QF have a double SC offer for everyone. The result will be me buying full price QF J fares in advance so as to secure QF platinum and step closer to QF LTG.
VA has a pretty good J product and I have genuinely noticed the crew have lost their poor attitude they had 6-12 months ago and I actually prefer the VA J product simply because the spare seats are not given away adhoc like QF does. VA are also far superior at protecting the sanctity of the J cabin whereas it's very noticeable these days that QF are a free for all with the J loo and allowing J pax an unflustered de-boarding experience is just not the done thing with QF ... however, QF are certainly winning the race to take my cash and they have done so well for the last year. I'm loving the feeling of no longer being tied to one airline, so I quite genuinely ask VA, where to now? Will I see my VA platinum (already requaled for this year), disappear in future simply because you are not keeping up with the competitor or will you come out of your corner swinging with some real competition again?