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yep - read all about it - United Airlines new Virgin Australia / Velocity Partner

I have noticed as well, that they seem to be serving lunch quite early. Can anyone in-the-know advise if they still have a "brunch window", or do they go straight from breakfast to lunch now?

I have seen out of order service a handfull of times, and was suspecting this to be the case. Club only, as I am platinum, and service reverted back to normal order after the "suspect" was served.

Yes, I remember YYC like that, now I am questioning if I got myself confused with how I described YYZ above, and AUA, BDA, or where ever else I have been through pre-clearance... anyway salient point as you said, where ever you do it, pre-clearance is always a slow process... and it involves...

Bags get checked in, as per normal at the check in counter. Once you move through the airport, and arrive at the US per-clearance area 3 things happen: you are processed by immigration for entry into the USA. This is your interview at the little cubicle with the CBP officer, if you haven't been...

Interesting, that seems to indicate that VA doesn't consider PER-HBA to be transcon service, and therefore doesn't get a "four course offer", just the standard longer flight "three course offer". Clever that the cabin leader acknowledged this by serving the cheese&crackers separately as an...

Qantas styles the Thompson VantageXL - VantageXL | Thompson Aero as their long range business class seat. Styling the standard Vantage seat - Vantage | Thompson Aero similarly wouldn't be too hard, and result in a 2x2, 1x1, 2x2 configuration in the first 3 rows of a single aisle aircraft. But...

In terms of positioning, the new VA is probably better aligned with downmarket UA, more than upmarket DL. And I agree, UA & AA standard lounges are so bad, they each had to invent "level-up" lounges for select locations/customers (Polaris & Flagship), DL's lounges, network-wide IMO, are a full...

Then he hasn't sat in an old one where the springs have gone yet! 💺 🎉 😳

I agree, this really did live up to the hype! An unprecedented opportunity for those who like to use their points for economy seats.

I would rate easy access to overhead storage space for my rolling kitchen-sink, during boarding and disembarkation, as a key data point as well. :eek:

New Business Class seats looks like the MiQ Miq I have flown on this with American Airlines, they certainly squeezed the pitch when they installed them on their planes, hopefully given the increased recline statement and footrest on Virgins, the same won't happen on VA's B737s. American also...

My previous experiences asking air-side at the First lounge desk are; an extra immediate family member on the same flight - yes an extra friend on the same flight - no I have also had luck domestically in the past, by phoning ahead prior to a special occasion, and the lounge manager adding a...

Let's hope it comes that quickly! The dynamic on the ground(/sea) has changed so fast since the French ones were ordered, and to me the similarities with the build up to WWII are all too familiar; ethnic concentration camps, political prisoners, rejection of diverse lifestyles, single...

Here's a pic of Lufthansa doing just that! source: EASA Certifies Cargo Seat Bags for A320 Family Aircraft Cabins - The Complete Resource For Air Cargo And Cargo Airports Industry

I do use my Virgin ones on hand luggage. I find them practical, as they have my details already printed on them, so no one has to read my scratchy handwriting. Plus if I lose my bag, especially on another airline, it gives them a second contact point if they can't find me, as they may then try...

IMO opinion, the key benefit of GOLD at QF is lounge access, in fact to over 600 of them globally, and domestically almost 350% more lounges than VA. (Fun fact, at SYD, MEL & PER, QF operate almost as many lounges as VA does nationally, at just a single airport!) IMO VA needs to offer so many...

The Qantas computer decided to re-time one of my connecting flights, and instead of a 90min transit in BNE, the computer actual ticketed me to have a negative, yes negative -4 hour transit in BNE. Not only was my flight into BNE arrving 4 hours AFTER my flight departing from BNE, but my...

Well that dramatically decreases the value of Velocity status for me. Halve the number of lounges in Australia, then cut access to Sky Clubs, and it will effect my purchasing. I was about to make a number of bookings during the double status credits promo, but I actually won't do that now. The...

Cash buffers!!??! Aren't they mortgaged to the hilt? :oops: Perhaps you mean - finally pay passengers their refunds immediately, instead of dragging things out for months on end, or payout the proportion of "stood down" staff members who might be more realistically defined as "retrenched", and I...