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Had a Thai vegetable curry (optionally add chicken) on tonight’s VA878 SYD-MEL. The curry was pretty tasty, though it reminds me of the vegetarian curry served at the Sydney lounge on most Thursday which I’m all too familiar with 😂

For sure there’s room to grow in the domestic market and that’s enabled the fleet growth of both players, but that room doesn’t make it easy for a new entrant to establish into the jet markets. It’s easy for the incumbent to incrementally grow its fleet year by year to support growing demand...

Since we are flexing: Top 1%, 49420km, 70 flights

I got the feeling that it’s coming since a few weeks ago that banner asking you to keep your information up to date showed up. I was not wrong.

Yes, once you’ve booked the ticket swap out the VFF number and replace it with your UA MP number. That entities you to whatever benefit VA provides to UA member, including lounge access.

ANA's HND-SYD flight usually have good business availability close in. I'd take the gamble to book a economy ticket now (choose a slightly flexible fare knowing you are likekly going to cancel it so the upfront cost isn't that big of a deal) and then look for those business awards close in, then...

VH-REX returned to MEL as VA9926 yesterday.

There is a VA counter once you clear immigration and customs that would let you check in and drop your bad. Depending on your arrival time it may or may not be open.

I have not and I understand what you mean. Sydney’s lounge has got a fine foundation. It just needs to have some interior design changes made to better utilize the space and I’d expect a 15% capacity increase is totally possible using the existing space with just adjustments to the floor plan -...

Sure, I expect that’ll happen as furnitures age and the Sydney lounge will get a refresh in the coming years just like Adelaide and Melbourne. It’s relatively inexpensive and they don’t need a capital injection for that. And VA has been getting more and different planes. 7M8 and M10 are coming...

Can VA not can one of the milk run flights and use that slot for the Doha service? Or would international slot be separate from a domestic slot?

Do wonder if the protection on these services not approved applies to redemptions via FFP points. I wouldn’t be surprised if VA releases a large number of reward seats on the new service as part of the launch campaign which if of course wonderful. Would be a shame if Velocity members are left...

Presumably he meant the current JV between QR/BA/IB. I don't see why ACCC would be against it. What's BA bring to the table if it were to operate as a compeitior to QR? 1 daily SYD via SIN, not much in the grand scheme of things when you look at the major participants/JV in the market (SQ...

The points hack article actually had the “correct” interpretation I think. Existing partnerships are the “some exceptions” but VA won’t add new partnerships in those regions without a nod from QR.

That's how all VA's current international codeshare arrangement works (or at least they are permitted to do so by ACCC). They have a blanket approval from ACCC dated in 2022 Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd which explained why VA didn't want to sell unilateral codeshare.

Yes and no I think. If you like SQ and mainly fly them to Europe, then yeah it won't work for you because you can't get them on VA code anymore. But if you are fine with QR then I'd say there are more opportunity to get a VA coded flight to Europe at a competitive price. With metal-neutral JV...

No issue to redeem one of my credit for my christmas travel. Checked rewards avaiability, booked the Flex fare and called in and after waiting about 5 minutes on the phone and all processed no drama.

Curious as to what was the sign/indication here?

different scenario in the DPS allocation IMO. they didn’t end up getting the slot because they weren’t willing to operate the domestic tag as international, but I don’t think there’s any concern that VA weren’t genuine about operating those slot and was trying to be a road block to prevent JQ...

Plenty of examples in life where it’s your right to do a thing, doesn’t mean you should do it or won’t be called nasty if you do it.