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I think there is some odd things going on across air travel. I was very surprised my domestic MEL-OOL the other day had only 100ish people on it with 3 spare seats in J and around 60 in Y. The CSM told me the return flight they were taking back only had 70 people booked - two days before...

The A380s have been slow coming back and Qantas made a big thing about having operational slack over peak summer to deal with something just like this. Suspect if 380s had been able to be more predictably stood up they might not have kept one so lightly scheduled.

Hi all, Nice to be back posting and browsing here more often after a grounded two years. Last year I finally got around to joining QBR with my own small company. I am now needing to make first company bookings. Obviously want to take advantage of latest promo plus possibly fare discounts...

I imagine they might need to enlarge the galley on some aircraft and probably install a proper crew rest for a flight of that length. I'm trying to remember what the 4 skybed 1 "international" 330s had circa ten years when they used to fly AKL-LAX-JFK. My first trip to JFK on EBL. Everything old...

Your argument is preposterous as Virgin are getting all the same government aid (including the government paying jobkeeper to their 10k + employees) as every other business plus additional help in the form of the already released aviation sector package. The reality is Virgin went into this...

According to another site they travelled home immediately flying Berlin - London - Darwin - Sydney with no rest break at all. All management pilots. Approx 60 hours door to door. Hopefully that is accurate info.

Yeah there goes my AKL status run in a couple of weeks then. A nightmare for Qantas and likely VERY expensive for all airlines as they will surely now have to offer refunds.

With the discussion around airlines offering extended status etc, how is this for an idea? Booked trips that are now not taken due to virus still earn points and status if forfeited. I have several forward bookings for the coming weeks I may now not need/want to take. All booked well prior to...

@jb747 more of a comment than a question but my god did you pick your moment to retire as it turns out!

A380 crew are QCCA employed and almost all are dual rated on 380/787. QF crew these days for international are divided 380/787 and 747/330.

I'm pretty happy with my effort. MEL-SYD-OOL as red e-deal and then OOL-MEL-AKL-MEL-OOL in J and OOL-SYD-MEL as same. Doing it over a couple of days and visiting friends in both. all up 660sc J flights were 1321. E-deal I brought down to $250 using some points AND I had a $450 AMEX credit. So...

Report I read elsewhere of a SYD-HKG CX 773 that had 79 people on board (23 in business)!

And tonight the PM announces an extension of another 7 days of the arrivals ban for anyone who has been in mainland China. To be assessed weekly from here on. This is bad news for tourism and education and bad news for my business as I have a key staff member stuck there. Not surprised sadly.

Indeed. Slightly off topic but I marvel at how no one ever thought of this approach decades earlier. So sensible and practical!

I suspect they're completely aware of the implications and it's atypical for these sorts of situations. It makes me wonder just how bad Virgin's position is right now and how precarious the whole operation is. This is extreme penny pinching.

I imagine all this is leading you to be even more glad you are out of the flight deck!

There is the option to add a second flight on the 330 to Narita from Sydney. There were lots of rumours that the 747s would stay longer a few months ago but nothing has officially been said. I wonder if they are planning to do that and not make a big fuss. They are relatively young really and a...

This is an astounding clip from the ABC's china correspondent who just flew Shanghai to Beijing today. If this one data piece indicates what's happened to travel I don't know how we won't see chinese airlines hitting the wall shortly. We know a number are already skating on thin financial ice...

Yes to business. Virgin don't offer first.

Pretty much zero I’m sad to say. 380s are the last birds to get refitted (I suspect there is internal debate at BA whether to retire them early like Air France and they are going to observe fuel prices and demand post brexit (!) over the next couple of years) and they are doing 777-200s before...