Agreed. I fly to an airport 1hr drive away to avoid Rex for this very reason. They might get you there, but they'll rarely do it on time. 

Ditto, always packed when I'm there. If there's no lounges at the destinations you're flying to because they've consilidated them all, what's the point of choosing VA when QF can provide the full experience. This just tells me any frequent flyer who deigns to have travel practices that sometimes ...

David, no! This would be a line in the sand for me (unless it was *retaining* what they do have, and adding something substantial instread of replacing what was free with something that is not).I work for a company that not only doesn't fly its suits around in business class, it actively prohibit...

This would be a nice differentiation. But TBH a better way to do this might be to have grab and go in the lounge. I really enjoyed the coffee and pastry grab and go, and it would save the headaches of tracking down random WPs in the air. Decent but not substantial packs would be good for when you...

Virgin Platinum twice over here (i.e. fly enought to gift platinum to wife as well). We have to fly economy by company policy but I fly too much for work to endure a LCC service (or lack thereof) on flights, so will be moving at least 100 flights per year away from VA  if they go this route....