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Etihad Airways pulls the plug on Virgin Australia partnership
Nov 20, 2024, 10:26 PMThey'll honour the bookings made before June 2025 and flown after the end date, but there will eventually be an end date for those bookings made before June and booked after that (I'd assume a 4-6 month cutoff).
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Etihad Airways pulls the plug on Virgin Australia partnership
Nov 18, 2024, 09:50 PMThere's a better chance of UA buying a stake into Virgin than the Alaska Airlines Group (which includes Hawaiian and Horizon), who is a major partner of the Qantas group.
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Etihad Airways pulls the plug on Virgin Australia partnership
Nov 18, 2024, 09:48 PMAs mentioned above, SQ are mostly unaffected except for the cessation of codeshares between SIN and Europe/UK. VA/VFF can still redeem for redemption seats on SQ with the appropriate lounge access included. VA hasn't shown any interest into joining Star Alliance at all under Bain's own...
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Virgin business class upgrades just got more expensive
Nov 16, 2024, 03:06 PMConsidering Bain is refitting the VA 737 by squeezing in an extra Y row and reducing the pitch closer to 30', it's unlikely Bain will be reversing the in progress Y-heavy LCC-ish reconfiguration program anytime soon.As suggest above by another poster, there is a slim chance of an extra J row bein...
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Qantas’ newest jet spreads its wings to Singapore
Nov 06, 2024, 11:32 PMFIFO in WA/Qld and some Fokker replacements.
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VA points / status credits on SQ flights to UK/Europe post QR FIRB approval
Nov 20, 2024, 10:24 PMAssuming the updated application is correct, then I'd assume so. But as stated, one of the few differences is that VA will no longer put their code on SIN-Europe/UK flights (instead putting their code on the QR services to Europe/UK), which probably doesn't affect too much people.
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Emirates to discontinue Melbourne to Singapore
Sep 15, 2024, 09:14 PMOriginally Posted by quantumreality Originally Posted by WelcomeAboard I think the whole point is there too much capacity in the market, which is why Emirates wish to drop the route. It doesn't make sense for Qantas to sub in an A380. Across all carriers (excluding Emirates) there are 68 departur...
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VA lounge access at BNE international
Aug 17, 2024, 12:36 PMNot if you're flying VA (and VA is not a Star Alliance member). IIRC NZ only allows VA members if they're flying on a QR/VA codeshare flight (operated by QR) under a third party arrangement with QR.
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Malaysia Airlines coming back to BNE?
Aug 09, 2024, 12:46 PMMH had just removed their BNE schedules from the GDS as per Aeroroutes. It was initially 727 seats (4x 737-8 MAX) before it was changed to x5 weekly A330-300ceo before it was recently removed.
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Flights to Auckland
Jul 09, 2024, 02:59 PMThe unilateral VA/NZ partnership is still subject to clearance from the NZCC. ACCC already gave it the all clear.