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Qantas’ new first class cheeseburger takes flight
Apr 04, 2026, 07:45 PMI mean, not everyone wants caviar? There are probably people out there flying first for the hard product, and would actually prefer a burger to patagonian toothfish or whatever - not everyone has adventurous pallets. The question is whether its a good burger?
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Virgin is keeping its 737 business class ‘shower curtain’
Aug 22, 2025, 09:53 PMYes its a downgrade from what was there previously on Virgin ... but as mentioned Qantas 737s just have the 'air divider' hanging from the ceiling too, and no curtain at all.My question is, how long does it take to install a piece of silly plastic from the ceiling that it has to wait until 2026? ...
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New airline shakes up Sydney-Hong Kong flights
Jun 22, 2025, 06:03 PMI vaguely recall flying them to back from Hong Kong to Sydney via the Gold Coast in 2018 in business class (on a VA ticket, with outbound leg on all VA metal via Melbourne, and OOL-SYD on VA too). They were serviceable, but the hard product looks exactly the same seven years later. For reference,...
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Virgin Australia lounge access for Doha flights
Apr 16, 2025, 04:27 PMSo still no lounge for international flights on VA metal? (NZ, Bali, Fiji etc)
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Virgin frequent flyer shake-up: $12,000 for Gold status?
Apr 02, 2025, 02:57 PMSo if it is being earnt per dollar, what is the reason that Economy lite has a different earn rate, but every other fare type including business have the same earn rate?
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737 max in the News again…. in many broadsheets around the world
Dec 31, 2023, 11:16 AMThis immediately makes me think of the design flaw in the original 737 rudders in the 1990s, which I think was caused by failure of a hydraulic value in the rudder controller.
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Report on switch from QF to VA for domestic travel
Sep 24, 2022, 07:37 PMOriginally Posted by greg959 Thanks very much for this report. It is good to hear. I tried virgin earlier in the year and it wasn’t great. I do enough domestic and international travel to maintain platinum on both QF and VA but hadn’t taken a VA flight in a few years.My sense is that ...
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Pre Depature Covid Testing - Once Borders Open
Oct 10, 2021, 09:32 AMI would reconsider any overseas travel while this requirement is in place. I understand the desire to ensure there isn't spread on the plane and transit to quarantine, but getting stuck overseas for unknown period without being able to board my return flight would be hellish. The risk likelihood ...
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Sabre IT outage affecting Virgin Australia (and others like Rex)
May 27, 2021, 07:39 PMOriginally Posted by XWu @andyfI wonder if your flight on Sunday was part of a return flight itinerary or separate bookings from outbound flight (ie one return booking vs 2 separate booking) which may influence the way they handled your request or rebooked your flight.I also wondered if you asked...
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Sabre IT outage affecting Virgin Australia (and others like Rex)
May 23, 2021, 06:02 PMMy (Sunday) direct flight cancelled by Virgin. Rebooked for Monday morning (with stopover) automatically, got a text and email about 5 hours before the flight just saying my flight has changed, and that I could check in to the new flight.Called VA Gold Line to see if there were any alternatives, ...