What is Virgin Australia's strategy (post-administration)?

[AustraliaPoochie]

You mean do it as whats done with QF at SYD airport gate 15/16, where you have to pick up your own bag off the trolleys after coming off a Dash8?
OR do it the way as with flights from the UAE to India where they bring the whole sink onto the plane, so to speak.
Jokes aside though, its a sad situation for VA, not only with Covid but also with their (previous) financial situation.
Hope they make some financial savings from not flying.

 

[antycbr]

You mean do it as whats done with QF at SYD airport gate 15/16, where you have to pick up your own bag off the trolleys after coming off a Dash8?
OR do it the way as with flights from the UAE to India where they bring the whole sink onto the plane, so to speak.
Jokes aside though, its a sad situation for VA, not only with Covid but also with their (previous) financial situation.
Hope they make some financial savings from not flying.

Cabin baggage is very different to hold baggage. We’d never do it for security reasons but it was the done thing in the USSR.

 

[jakeseven7]

You mean do it as whats done with QF at SYD airport gate 15/16, where you have to pick up your own bag off the trolleys after coming off a Dash8?
OR do it the way as with flights from the UAE to India where they bring the whole sink onto the plane, so to speak.
Jokes aside though, its a sad situation for VA, not only with Covid but also with their (previous) financial situation.
Hope they make some financial savings from not flying.

Don’t worry Bain is there to keep paying the bills until they sell it down in a few months.

Also impacting VA2 is that they don’t carry as much freight as the QF group and seem not to be very interested in pursuing this market either which is leaving it pretty much all to Qantas.

 

[antycbr]

Don’t worry Bain is there to keep paying the bills until they sell it down in a few months.

Also impacting VA2 is that they don’t carry as much freight as the QF group and seem not to be very interested in pursuing this market either which is leaving it pretty much all to Qantas.

If you don’t have ramp staff it’s hard to do freight…

Plus the QF/auspost relationship is really dominant.

 

[Mr H]

Cabin baggage is very different to hold baggage. We’d never do it for security reasons but it was the done thing in the USSR.

I think it was Algeria where you checked in hold baggage as normal in the terminal, then got to the plane and found it spread out on the ground. Passengers had to identify their bags and hand them to crew who put it on a trolley for loading. All watched over by armed soldiers.

 

[jb747]

I think it was Algeria where you checked in hold baggage as normal in the terminal, then got to the plane and found it spread out on the ground. Passengers had to identify their bags and hand them to crew who put it on a trolley for loading. All watched over by armed soldiers.

I've seen that done in Bahrain too. There were always a few bags left over that passengers had forgotten about....I guess they were blown up.

 

[jase05]

Don’t worry Bain is there to keep paying the bills until they sell it down in a few months.

Also impacting VA2 is that they don’t carry as much freight as the QF group and seem not to be very interested in pursuing this market either which is leaving it pretty much all to Qantas.

Oh VA are trying to get in to more freight absolutely but QF and APG’s partnership is massive and only going to get bigger

 

[RAM]

Oh VA are trying to get in to more freight absolutely but QF and APG’s partnership is massive and only going to get bigger

And then there's the freight business you may not want such as in the case of Amazon & USPS where USPS (American taxpayer) ended up subsidising every Amazon parcel delivered for years...

 

[jakeseven7]

Oh VA are trying to get in to more freight absolutely but QF and APG’s partnership is massive and only going to get bigger

Why did they fire most of that division then

 

[jase05]

Why did they fire most of that division then

I said they tried, didn’t say they succeeded.
I believe they might have another push at a later date but very hard competing against the QF/APG partnership

 

[antycbr]

I said they tried, didn’t say they succeeded.
I believe they might have another push at a later date but very hard competing against the QF/APG partnership

Remember when Virgin Blue was owned by Toll?

 

[jase05]

Remember when Virgin Blue was owned by Toll?

Sure do.

 

[HS-TQE]

Remember when Virgin Blue was owned by Toll?

Was majority owned by Toll back in the days. VB were making $$ after $$ in profit most years before they started selling down PE style (starting with a minority stake to NZ).

Virgin Group (Corvina) had a larger minority stake but were also selling down themselves, with BG's CEO successor from memory* able to talk Virgin group into selling down their stake to SQ and EY (we all know how that went for BG's successor ).

* Will stand corrected on who sold which part to who. It's just from my recollection in the articles.

 

[jakeseven7]

I said they tried, didn’t say they succeeded.
I believe they might have another push at a later date but very hard competing against the QF/APG partnership

There’s plenty of ‘private’ contracts they could have had a red hot go at, like the local FedEx deal…

 

[jase05]

There’s plenty of ‘private’ contracts they could have had a red hot go at, like the local FedEx deal…

Absolutely, not disagreeing there. QF offered up a good package for FedEx and ticked a few more boxes for their requirements but I still think VA turned up their toes too easily.

 

[AIRwin]

New agreement on landing access, terminal fees, security screening and future capital needs:

Virgin Australia Signs 10-Year Agreement with Broome International | Aviation Week Network

The air services deal extends an existing relationship between the two parties.

www.routesonline.com

 

[victorp]

As was reported in a different forum, was reportedly digital related in both Velocity and VAH, inc.

BNE doesn't exactly have the Tech population as their bigger southern city brothers.

Sorry to bring up an old topic, but for the record most of digital and tech is in Brisbane and always has been. And yes, cities other than Sydney and Melbourne have healthy digital and technology scenes doing work which is equal to what's going on in the "bigger southern city brothers".

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

As in my other thread, what is VA doing/strategy???
You ask, grr, saving money by not having any more VFF cards issued.
Lets all moan to VFF.
Just got the email earlier this afternoon.
Money pinching, but using environmental savings as an excuse.

 

[AIRwin]

You ask, grr, saving money by not having any more VFF cards issued.

Take a screenshot of the bar code if not enough memory for an app?

 

[TMP]

As in my other thread, what is VA doing/strategy???
You ask, grr, saving money by not having any more VFF cards issued.
Lets all moan to VFF.
Just got the email earlier this afternoon.
Money pinching, but using environmental savings as an excuse.

I think their strategy is perfectly clear. Whether you agree with it is another thing, of course