Hi syd_flyer – yes, quite right, thanks for picking that up and apologies, this was all being done around 6.15am as new info was coming up. I'm hearing of more reward seats being sighted or at least remaining ex-BNE, be interesting to see how PER shapes up if early birds over there got the ...

Our $10k figure was based on the same mid-August travel period as used to compare the price of other airlines, looking at the lowest fare across specific travel dates. We deliberately chose to avoid July because that's still a peak period for northern European travel, and with the VA flights goin...

Hi UpUpAndAway – while nothing was revised based on comments, what did happen is that the initial information shared by Virgin Australia changed, so the article had to be revised 'live' and after that, some additional info added on an iterative basis. All made for rather busy early morning ...

Hi Ja90ck – that's a good pickup on seatcount, I was scrambling yesterday afternoon to pull this all together so missed the Qsuite variant of the 412-seat 777. The article has been edited to reflect this.

Hi Ian62 – caviar was definitely not on the menu on the Bangkok-Muscat flight, it also wasn't offered by crew, and both the Business Studio crew I spoke with affirmed the f&b was identical between both cabins. It's worth noting that a new menu has recently been rolled out – that's...