Article: Virgin Australia’s Flights to Bali Selling Fast

[AFF Editor]

Virgin Australia’s Flights to Bali Selling Fast is an article written by AFF editorial staff:

Virgin Australia's Flights to Bali Selling Fast

Virgin Australia will next week resume flying from Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne to Bali. It will be the first time Virgin has flown to Indonesia since

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

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[asterix]

We had VA63 booked for 08/12/2022 which was supposed to arrive in Bali at 1450. I noticed last night that VA63 has disappeared and we are now on VA65 which arrives at 2125. No email from Virgin yet. That's 7 hours of resort time gone.

 

[theblank]

carrier charges/costs are up significantly. Just looked up an old flight from DPS>BNE in 2019, it cost me points + $57
now its points + $114

as for flights BNE>DPS i dont know what the charges were before (i dont fly that way) but now its $151 - i am very sure it was around $100 before. The Redemption rate for Y is 22300 which from memory is unchanged.

for comparison the old charges DPS > BNE were:
(I dont know how to get the details of the new charges without buying a ticket)

AUD 3.22 WG2 (INTERNAT IONAL SAFETY AND SECURITY CHARGE)
AUD 31.09 WY2 (WY2)
AUD 20.80 D5 (PASSENGER SERVICE CHARGE)

 

[odysseus]

carrier charges/costs are up significantly. Just looked up an old flight from DPS>BNE in 2019, it cost me points + $57
now its points + $114

as for flights BNE>DPS i dont know what the charges were before (i dont fly that way) but now its $151 - i am very sure it was around $100 before. The Redemption rate for Y is 22300 which from memory is unchanged.

for comparison the old charges DPS > BNE were:
(I dont know how to get the details of the new charges without buying a ticket)

AUD 3.22 WG2 (INTERNAT IONAL SAFETY AND SECURITY CHARGE)
AUD 31.09 WY2 (WY2)
AUD 20.80 D5 (PASSENGER SERVICE CHARGE)

The government increased its processing charges early on in 2020 for extra covid handling procedures as I recall.

Here are the current charges for DPS->BNE:
Australia Safety And Security Charge Arrival (WG)A$24.93
Australia Passenger Services Charge Arrival International (WY)A$31.09
Indonesia Passenger Service Charge (D5)A$23.10

 

[Saab34]

Are they really sold out or are they in the process of changing flight schedules again and have blocked some flights?

They did this with me last time, my domestic flight went up to like $399 while the rest remained at $99. Then a week out they canceled it and pushed me to the prior one. Testing the waters would you could say.

 

[jase05]

I can handle the

Are they really sold out or are they in the process of changing flight schedules again and have blocked some flights?

They did this with me last time, my domestic flight went up to like $399 while the rest remained at $99. Then a week out they canceled it and pushed me to the prior one. Testing the waters would you could say.

Aircraft look pretty damn full from what I can see

 

[MEL_Traveller]

The flights have been on sale for many weeks… when I was planning a trip to Bali in late April some of the MEL-DPS flights had already sold out in business class. The pricing was fairly competitive… $1450 return. QF was asking $2900 on a 737. JQ was around $1800.

 

[bam71]

Interestingly the VA flights in J are being priced around $100 to $150 more each way than JQ J. I’d prefer a JQ J 787 anyday over a 737.

 

[AFF Editor]

Discussion about these flights now requiring a refueling stop in Darwin has been moved to the other dedicated thread:

Virgin flights to Bali require technical stop in Darwin

Wonder why the inaugural SYD-DPS flight tomorrow has been cancelled and replaced by DRW-DPS with the same arrival time (which will then turn around to SYD):

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

Looks like the loads on these flights are still extremely solid. Most VA flights to DPS over the coming days are now completely sold out or have just a couple of seats left in Economy.