Poor experience with call centre

[Bagpuss]

You do all those things to spruce the place up for a sale, I would guess the private equity knows at least roughly when they will sell. Spend now to show what it was like when they took over and what it is like now.

Not really because you would conserve cash and then in presentations present the range of options available which would include doing nothing, because you could be unnecessarily investing.

Virgin Australia isn't being put up for sale. The potential of an IPO which by the seems of it in the short term would be less than about 40% beause Bain want to maintain 51% plus I expect Virgin Group and QLD Government would maintain their small shares.

 

[UP4014]

Not really because you would conserve cash and then in presentations present the range of options available which would include doing nothing, because you could be unnecessarily investing.

Virgin Australia isn't being put up for sale. The potential of an IPO which by the seems of it in the short term would be less than about 40% beause Bain want to maintain 51% plus I expect Virgin Group and QLD Government would maintain their small shares.

Having been through a few sales, I humbly disagree. PE (private equity) spend up to improve the optics, Bain would have had an exit plan in place before they went in, be it 2, 5, 8 years.

 

[CorporateFlyerMEL]

How long until travel?

Next week, so pretty happy

 

[Frenchtoast]

Gold: Never onshore
Platinum: in my experience about ¼ Hobart, ¼ Auckland, ½ Fiji / South Africa

Thanks for this, so looks like offshore regardless of Virgin or Qantas at Gold. A tough choice, I am doing far less domestic travel, where I still think Virgin win due to ticket cost and level of service provided.

Now that I am potentially focusing more on the International side of travel, Virgin seem to fall short, and cost of tickets seems to be pretty close.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Plat and got offshore twice on Wednesday morning ~8am. First call dropped trying to organise fly ahead. No issues doing so. Must say I do prefer getting the local agents. Things tend to flow much easier, I have found

 

[Frenchtoast]

Agreed - whilst the offshore agents aren't bad, it's definitely a much smoother experience with less of an emphasis on following a "checklist".