First off I'm a miner and fly weekly from Brisbane to Mackay. I have been a loyal supporter of Virgin over the last 2 years and often pay more for my Virgin flights but the benefits were worth it.
i usually book minimum 2 months in advance to keep the prices down e.g. Less then $100.
About 6 weeks ago as I was making my bookings I hit Thurs 13 June Mackay to Brisbane and it said all economy was sold out, so thinking there was a glitch I moved onto the 27th June same thing. I decided I had made enough bookings for the day and would continue in a few weeks when the glitch had been fixed.
The time came around to make the bookings and the cheapest fare on any Thursday Mackay to Brisbane is a Flexi fare at an average price of $279???? This goes on until August, eventually I stopped searching.
Now some of you are probably saying your a miner and you can afford it, but a return trip would be a third of my weekly pay. I'm about to become VA Platinum but I have to say that if thats the prices that Virgin expect me to pay, they've just lost a loyal customer. I will happily fly Jetstar / Qantas for $59 and give them my loyalty from now on.
Its got me totally baffled as to why they would do this. I have about 20 people on my crew who all pay for their own flights and they are frequent flyers all on different levels, all have refused to pay those prices. The most I've ever paid in $159 in the two years I have been doing this route.
Goodbye Virgin.
i usually book minimum 2 months in advance to keep the prices down e.g. Less then $100.
About 6 weeks ago as I was making my bookings I hit Thurs 13 June Mackay to Brisbane and it said all economy was sold out, so thinking there was a glitch I moved onto the 27th June same thing. I decided I had made enough bookings for the day and would continue in a few weeks when the glitch had been fixed.
The time came around to make the bookings and the cheapest fare on any Thursday Mackay to Brisbane is a Flexi fare at an average price of $279???? This goes on until August, eventually I stopped searching.
Now some of you are probably saying your a miner and you can afford it, but a return trip would be a third of my weekly pay. I'm about to become VA Platinum but I have to say that if thats the prices that Virgin expect me to pay, they've just lost a loyal customer. I will happily fly Jetstar / Qantas for $59 and give them my loyalty from now on.
Its got me totally baffled as to why they would do this. I have about 20 people on my crew who all pay for their own flights and they are frequent flyers all on different levels, all have refused to pay those prices. The most I've ever paid in $159 in the two years I have been doing this route.
Goodbye Virgin.
, thats the glitch, coupled with high loads.
should scrape a few more together in the next fortnight.
