I too am pleased to see that pale rosé is starting to be produced more locally. I'm annoyed by this so-called "vegan wine" though. There's no such thing: every wine out there, "vegan" or not, has a small handful of critters in the mix. Unless every single piece of fruit is manually removed from t...

If VA goes with SkyTeam, what happens with Singapore, which is *A? Correct me if wrong, but none of VA's other owners are aligned with any of the big three. It doesn't seem likely that NZ will move to OW - that's a lot of fuss and bother for very little upside (for them).

Holy crap. This isn't good for Virgin at all. Hello Star Alliance?

And gaining … kind of everybody else. I hear United is pretty rubbish (haven't flown them in years), but they don't seem that much better/worse than Delta.

AC doesn't earn points/status for Virgin though. If I was fine with not getting Velocity points/status, I'd just keep flying AirNZ, which I really like.(and it's AC (eww), and going from domestic to international at SYD and BNE is painful - I'm in MEL).