Search results

Anyone else still waiting for the egiftcard bonus points?

We will see if WOW dangle a carrot next Monday to nab my Christmas spend. This was all I got this week.

EY also launching SIN A380 ops soon so plenty of ops and competition coming up for those that like the cheaper positioning flights.

How often are simulator checks done? Why do Pilots seem to hate them so much? Is it the Sim Instructors?

Rex probably had them still out in the shed in Wagga.

Have they done a seat upgrade to these before EIS?

Do they run with a reduced cabin crew on these flights? I mean, pax numbers generally never go above 30.

The second one is doing this weird route also. Any ideas?

The majority of these flights will be sold via the QR site. Virgin’s site is terrible. Options are limited, prices are higher. I don’t think they went into this expecting everyone to book via VA. It’s all being made out like it’s Virgin, but it’s not. These are really just extra QR flights.

Trying to keep the pollies happy I guess. Must be a deal before the government or something 😄

It seems they block those two seats when going to seat selection. It looks like an Airbus option the 188 seats , AirAsia/Scoot have kept the 31 rows and 186 seats. Peach and HK Express are two that I see have gone for the 188. Apparently it’s called an Airbus Max Pax option. Truly horrendous.

The Jetstar seats are better compared to those Tiger cloth seats. I actually didn’t mind the TT seats when they started, but 20 years on they need to be replaced. Certainly lifespan is only 10-15 years, but it’s mining ops so nobody seems to care about spending capex on anything product.

It seems 3 had been stored in Doha since late October, and one of those has actually just started flying for Qatar this week again, but it’s not doing much perhaps two hours a day. Wonder what the plan is as such for the other two plus the one lone bird flying very little.

I see Qatar doesn’t operate the MAX for its own services anymore, they wet leased the whole fleet to Indigo. The Qatar Seat in Y anyway, appears to the same seat as Virgin also.

While something like a rope would still need to go via a CASA process, a couple years is a bit of a stretch, perhaps a year tops.

Nasty.

If probably say more ‘past the use by date’. From all reports they have ongoing engineering issues behind the scenes. However Alliance’s fleet is much more active vs say Network or VARA. Network’s Fokker fleet is probably more the junk.

What would an agent offer? Just a refund? Unless they can source a fare within the original dollar amount on someone else? I have not dealt with an agent for 20 years.

You need $300-$400m in the bank to launch operations here. That’s before one even makes a buck. A million other ways exist to invest and make money. Airlines are not one of them.

I’d imagine it will be relatively short lived if they are pulling back Alliance flying from Brisbane, Mackay is going back to Virgin.