Now You're Flying Virgin Australia

[mcaves]

Oh what's this? VirginAustralia.com is still selling seats for afternoon flights? At least 20 seats are available? Oh, and so is expert flyer?

I was caught up in this problem last night too I was going to fly up to the Gold Coast on the last flight of the day, checked reward flight availability at around 4:00pm, no problem, still PE seats left. Went to book at around 5:30pm and nothing... Phoned the GCC and was told about the flight cancellation and they were re-booking people on the later flight, hence no availability.

So I looked at today, there was only the 7:10am showing with availability, a bit of an early start :shock: But booked it...

Moral of the story, book when you first see availability!

On the plus side, it was a BSI aircraft this morning, my first time on one. Very new, very nice, very Virgin America!

Matt.

 

[LiamR]

But you still have not got your PLAT package Liam, reading between the lines that your real vent LOL. They are worth waiting for, especially compared to the requalified QF package for WPs these days, a letter In the guise of a marketing piece with a card stuck to it.

You do realise that's a joke right? I couldn't care less when the package comes, as I'm already using the benefits.

 

[markis10]

You do realise that's a joke right? I couldn't care less when the package comes, as I'm already using the benefits.

Something of a long winded joke for those still waiting.

 

[serfty]

...

*Successfully emptyied steam out of head*

Interesting. This is what flightstats has to say: (Track Flight Status for (DJ) Virgin Australia 543)

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[TD]Flight Events[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]This section shows the various changes that were made to the information about the flight including the time the source was changed as well as the data source that caused the change. The date and time of the event are displayed in UTC time.[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Date[/TD]
[TD]Time
UTC[/TD]
[TD]Time
SYD[/TD]
[TD]Time
OOL[/TD]
[TD]Source[/TD]
[TD]Event[/TD]
[TD]Data Updated[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]17 Sep[/TD]
[TD]9:06AM[/TD]
[TD]7:06PM[/TD]
[TD]7:06PM[/TD]
[TD]Schedules[/TD]
[TD]Record Created[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]19 Sep[/TD]
[TD]2:12PM[/TD]
[TD]12:12AM[/TD]
[TD]12:12AM[/TD]
[TD]Airport[/TD]
[TD]Time Adjustment[/TD]
[TD]Estimated Gate Departure Changed To 09/20/11 07:10 PM
Departure Gate Changed To 35[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]20 Sep[/TD]
[TD]4:05AM[/TD]
[TD]2:05PM[/TD]
[TD]2:05PM[/TD]
[TD]Airport[/TD]
[TD]Time Adjustment[/TD]
[TD]Estimated Gate Departure Changed From 09/20/11 07:10 PM To 09/20/11 08:10 PM[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]20 Sep[/TD]
[TD]6:04AM[/TD]
[TD]4:04PM[/TD]
[TD]4:04PM[/TD]
[TD]Airport[/TD]
[TD]Gate Adjustment[/TD]
[TD]Departure Gate Changed From 35 To 34[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]20 Sep[/TD]
[TD]7:15AM[/TD]
[TD]5:15PM[/TD]
[TD]5:15PM[/TD]
[TD]Airline[/TD]
[TD]Time Adjustment[/TD]
[TD]Estimated Gate Arrival Changed To 09/20/11 09:30 PM
Arrival Terminal Changed From 1 To 1[/TD]
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