You may well be spot on greg re: Canberra Airport. notorious for it - the Snow's have done some good things with that airport site, but pissed a lot of people off over time as well, so would not surprise me if this was just the latest in a long list of those things.

I would think Canberra - Melbourne might stay too with Virgin at once a day return perhaps, but with additional flights from Alliance as such. Just have to wait and see - but if its all Alliance out of Canberra, just another reason why my Velocity Gold sigh will become a thing of the past for sure.

This was flagged at least a month ago in a previous email. I have no idea what the 10 days is about, but they did give some forewarning.

Originally Posted by StuParr Once VA goes through the required restructure of debt and equity, the government will most likely come in to support in some way. There was no use in its current state as it was still unstable and it wasn't politically a good idea to support what is seen as essentiall...

It's hard to know, but what we all know is we need two strong competing airlines in Australia - not one. Even a shorter term 12-24 months in which there is only one would do immeasurable damage imho and should be avoided at all costs.None of this is to say Virgin hasn't been optimally managed - t...