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Etihad says its Airbus A380s are not coming back anytime soon
Oct 02, 2020, 06:48 AMThere goes Bucket List Item #2
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Virgin Australia plots its return to New Zealand, USA
Sep 02, 2020, 06:20 PMWatching with dismay as our Platinum status winds down to Gold - and with no international flights on the horizon, zero opportunity in the required time frame to maintain or achieve points and SC.It will be a long sabbatical without our annual trip to the USA, but we count oursleves lucky to have...
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Final call: Qantas farewells the iconic Boeing 747 jumbo jet
Jul 23, 2020, 07:00 AMI never got to witness her exit in person, but thank you to everyone here for your eloquent description of the final departure and for providing the link. I have tears in my eyes.
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Cyrus wants Virgin Australia to be a smaller, mid-market airline
Jun 15, 2020, 12:02 PMAny speculation about how a VA and Velocity member in Sydney would continue to fly to LA in the meantime? I would love to hear people's thoughts on likely alliance partners...
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Virgin Australia Mk II could launch within three months
Apr 24, 2020, 08:29 AMIf Administrators can set Virgin back onto a path for profitable trading - can we just leave them there and ditch the existing Board after years of bad management? Paul Scurrah excepted - I think he is doing an admirable job in such challenging times.
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Unavailability of Virgin Reward Seats
Sep 21, 2019, 08:28 AMVelocity reward availability is often found when you search one way. It does take some gumption to invest the outbound sector and then wait for a return flight to pop up, but I am a perfect example of how it can work. I started looking SYD-LAX around 300 days out, found a couple of J seats via BN...
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Singapore Airlines business class lounge access in economy
Jul 13, 2019, 05:49 PMConstructive criticism here: Why would anyone even book in a separate class to their partner? I must be mad, because I would never, never, ever fly in a different cabin to my husband (or partner in your case). And I'm pretty sure he would never do it to me.100% sure, to be exact.
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Virgin mocks Qantas Frequent Flyer announcement
Jun 28, 2019, 06:45 PMThis is brilliant! There's nothing like a bit of cheeky humor to drive some reinforcement of the positive aspects of Velocity.