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I’d recommend 3 hours if ticketed separately just to give yourself some breathing room. I did this separate ticket connection in SYD just last week and arrived at around 12PM which is a quiet time for international arrivals, got through customs and arrived at the VA connection desk at around 1PM...

We say that but VARA still operates 4 Fokker and 7 A320 on top of the 737-700s (technically registered to VAd AOC and flown by VAd crew?). The Fokker will be replaced by a small fleet of either A220 or E190 and the A320 looks like will stick around for a bit. If VARA can sustain 7 A320 and 4...

Does the crew get paid their regular hourly rate while deadheading as pax or do they get paid extra working the boarding for another crew and deadheading is unpaid? I can imagine it can leave a source taste to the staff if they are supposed to be clocked off, deadhead and go home while still...

On face value VA3 would be a good investment for these 2 airlines. It gives them a profitable domestic Australian operation but also have synergy into its home business, but given the bitter history I think you'd need the idea to come from someone on the very top end and will get a lot of...

Get a good law firm and corporate finance team and they'll be able to set this up for you in a jiffy. You'd get some professional managers to be the director and set up the new company (for simplifity let's call it xx_ International Airlines Pty Ltd). The foreign investor then comes in, inject...

What can they do? It's not like VA have any larger aircraft they can substitue in to make more room for affected customers or run extra flights after the storm for recovery due to the movement caps at SYD. The best they can do seems to be to book any available space on QF/JQ/ZL that's not...

If I run an airline those are the best “frequent flyer” for me. The less they step foot on a plane the less money I have to spend in giving them FF benefits. The regular top tier members spend a lot of money but then it also costs a lot (or lost revenue from someone that’s willing to pay) to...

scheduled to fly SYD-HKG later this month and back in early March. The seat maps still shows the old 2-2-2 J configuration. whats the chances that it’ll be substituted with an aircraft with the retrofitted configuration?

Does anyone know what is going on with this Worldwide Air profile email that I got from VA? The website seems to link to a medical organization so not sure why they would have anything to do with VA and even the phone number seems incomplete. This also came just after I bought myself a ticket...

To be fair Qantas/Jetstar makes the same disclaimer. I thought any public transport services wouldn’t be able to guarantee their schedule but sadly that’s not common knowledge apparently so I don’t fault airlines for saying that explicitly.

I mostly do SYD-MEL on choice fares, I will get more bonus SC under this scheme compared to the old DSC. Also it’s nice not having to book weeks ahead when your plan could still change to take advantage of the offer.

Maybe it’s because the 2 parallel NS runways don’t align on the ends so the aircraft approaching would be at different stages of their approach even when horizontally parallel to each other so you couldn’t get aircraft’s paired so there’s a gap to use the EW runway to take off. SFO have a...

Yes, but I don’t sympathize with VA just because of that - it’s something they know and can fully plan and mitigate by slightly padding turn around time, having spare aircraft or crews etc. I’ve seen my aircraft coming in on schedule only to see my flight delayed by 20 minutes because of a...

It’s very frustrating but I think party the tech industry’s fault. The only correct answer right now is to install both USB-C and A charging or else you risk making people unhappy when they have incompatible cables. CX has started to install seat back entertainment systems from Thales with both...

The 2023 DSC offer was announce on 30th Jan for travel until March 30 2023. Shouldn’t be much longer now.

It's not this specific scenario but I've definitely tried to get lounge access when flying DL, crediting to DL (with no status) but then I just went to the lounge, showed my AF ElitePlus card and the lounge staff did something on her computer and let me through. Instead of messing with adding...

Not sure if it's mentioned here but does SQ release any on long haul 777/350 business class to VA for booking or do I need to transfer to SQ to book those?

it’s not a given. just because the other airline is an alliance partner doesn’t mean they’ll have to form some sort of partnership or even interline. before the great US airline consolidations of the 2000s there were US/CO/UA all in SA and plenty of airline works exclusively with UA for domestic...

What would Bain rebrand the airline to though if it wanted? Velocity Airlines maybe but still it’s nowhere near a household name like Virgin. Alaska itself is a well-established reputable brand in the US so it would make sense for them to cut the Virgin brand.