Virgin Australia "Milestone Announcement" June 1, 2023

[AIRwin]

10 pages now and more to come after Monday...

 

[nlagalle]

Regardless of what people think of ET/AusBT's 'antics', another question is whether ET/AusBT's jumping the gun could be held responsible for the delayed announcement till Monday?

Given media were flown in for the event I highly doubt it…

 

[nlagalle]

Saw this floating around on the interwebs

 

[exceladdict]

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Saw this floating around on the interwebs

Surely one square should be *A

 

[serfty]

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[HS-TQE]

Surely one square should be *A

Next to it should be the old "Singapore will TAEK OVAH VA!!!!1111!!!"

 

[nlagalle]

10 pages now and more to come after Monday...

I doubt there is anything more to come.. no media call on Monday, so no reporting to happen

 

[AIRwin]

I doubt there is anything more to come.. no media call on Monday, so no reporting to happen

More about nothing either way

 

[SeaWolf]

Not upset, just laughing at the piss weak announcement after the pre event hype (again).

What pre-event hype? For what I can see the only reason any of us knew this was occurring at all was because of a mistakenly published article on ET that was quickly removed. Having a few drinks and a DJ at the bar at the Ovolo in Sydney seems to be pretty low key to me and roughly in line with the level of what was announced.

People in this thread hyped themselves up and are now feeling let down over a hype they created themselves out of nothing. Virgin certainly didn't create any pre-event hype.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

What pre-event hype? For what I can see the only reason any of us knew this was occurring at all was because of a mistakenly published article on ET that was quickly removed. Having a few drinks and a DJ at the bar at the Ovolo in Sydney seems to be pretty low key to me and roughly in line with the level of what was announced.

People in this thread hyped themselves up and are now feeling let down over a hype they created themselves out of nothing. Virgin certainly didn't create any pre-event hype.

Ah… but they didn’t stop it, either.

They knew it had been published. Their socials should have picked up chatter. Yet they didn’t manage those expectations.

 

[justinbrett]

If it is a major announcement (which looks very unlikely, major announcements like an alliance or new airline partner would have had branding at the event - all we saw was a new "logo" and "slogan").

It's also pretty strange to have a media event 100+ hours before the embargo is lifted. It's a business day today - what's wrong with today? Who needs four days to write their articles? Not very fast!

So my guess is there will be some minor changes to the program, possibly one or two new ground partners - something like lifetime status or dynamic reward pricing perhaps - but nothing that will "wow" the general travelling public.

Or perhaps the embargo is on the logo itself - it hasn't broken news on any other site or on the Velocity website. Not that it's exactly newsworthy.

 

[MooTime]

If it is a major announcement (which looks very unlikely, major announcements like an alliance or new airline partner would have had branding at the event - all we saw was a new "logo" and "slogan").

It's also pretty strange to have a media event 100+ hours before the embargo is lifted. It's a business day today - what's wrong with today? Who needs four days to write their articles? Not very fast!

So my guess is there will be some minor changes to the program, possibly one or two new ground partners - something like lifetime status or dynamic reward pricing perhaps - but nothing that will "wow" the general travelling public.

Or perhaps the embargo is on the logo itself - it hasn't broken news on any other site or on the Velocity website. Not that it's exactly newsworthy.

We know there'll be no alliance, no way for many reasons mostly cost.

Changing the logo is close to a major Ann, it's completely irrelevant to vast majority and nobody actually cares. Total waste of $$, seen it all before at other companies. If it's not on the velocity website, then it's exactly what I posted upthread, a corporate piss up.

If some sort of variance of lifetime status is Ann then that will get the travelling public excited, at least those here on AFF.

Yes today a work day, but I imagine few sore heads which they'll soak up in the Sydney beyond lounge.

 

[RooFlyer]

Given media were flown in for the event I highly doubt it…

Who was that?

Also, isn't it a bit odd that they held the event in Sydney, not their home of Brisbane?

 

[SeatBackForward]

Next to it should be the old "Singapore will TAEK OVAH VA!!!!1111!!!"

SQ has taken a stake in Air India rather than get involved again with Virgin Australia.....hmmm.

 

[HS-TQE]

SQ has taken a stake in Air India rather than get involved again with Virgin Australia.....hmmm.

Aware of that. Was a referencing to the said title during the pre-adminstration era (and the hype by the media and wider social media) which all of the 'so called' takeover articles ended up as 'fake News' everytime

 

[jakeseven7]

Also, isn't it a bit odd that they held the event in Sydney, not their home of Brisbane?

No, because it was a media event and media is massively centralised and syndicated from Sydney.

 

[MattA]

It's also pretty strange to have a media event 100+ hours before the embargo is lifted. It's a business day today - what's wrong with today? Who needs four days to write their articles? Not very fast!

If I had to hazard a guess, if there's a new logo and branding then there's probably a revamped Velocity website to accompany that. Maybe the delay is because it's not ready yet and the devs need the weekend to finish it? (I have zero insider knowledge of anything at VFF, but I do know IT projects...)

Enjoying this thread btw.

 

[justinbrett]

If I had to hazard a guess, if there's a new logo and branding then there's probably a revamped Velocity website to accompany that. Maybe the delay is because it's not ready yet and the devs need the weekend to finish it? (I have zero insider knowledge of anything at VFF, but I do know IT projects...)

Enjoying this thread btw.

The VA airline logo change tweak was launched the same day.

 

[simmomelb]

There is a lot more coming soon, but for those without patience, it looks to be driving you crazy

The comments above are quite entertaining, however

 

[ChrisFlyer]

If it is a major announcement (which looks very unlikely, major announcements like an alliance or new airline partner would have had branding at the event - all we saw was a new "logo" and "slogan").

It's also pretty strange to have a media event 100+ hours before the embargo is lifted. It's a business day today - what's wrong with today? Who needs four days to write their articles? Not very fast!

So my guess is there will be some minor changes to the program, possibly one or two new ground partners - something like lifetime status or dynamic reward pricing perhaps - but nothing that will "wow" the general travelling public.

Or perhaps the embargo is on the logo itself - it hasn't broken news on any other site or on the Velocity website. Not that it's exactly newsworthy.

Maybe, just maybe, if a certain somebody hadn't broken a strict embargo.......