It is now 72 hours since a wrong report about Virgin Blue getting Boeing 777-200LRs in Air Transport World sent sites like Airliners.net into a frenzy of learned discussion.
This report also excited contacts in Qantas sufficiently for them to give it credence, and cause this report in Plane Talking. Except that I changed my [...]
Tag Archives: V Australia
Incorrect if not fanciful reporting about Virgin Blue
November 8, 2009 – 7:54 am
V Australia looks at VVVery long range 777s, BUT ISN’T GETTING ANY JUST YET
November 6, 2009 – 5:45 pm
Uh oh. V Australia is now officially not about to order more Boeing 777s, either -300ERs, which it already has in service, or ultra long range -200LRs.
Earlier today even some finger-on-pulse sources in Qantas were of the view that V Australia is poised to acquire enough Boeing 777-200LRs to launch non-stop flights between Sydney and [...]
‘Delta V’ trans Pacific deal gets closer
November 2, 2009 – 2:43 pm
The competition watchdog the ACCC today published a draft determination proposing authorisation of a joint venture between Virgin Blue and Delta Airlines on their flights between Australia and the US.
Although not final the draft makes a link up early in 2010 likely given that the necessary US approval for the deal seems inevitable because it [...]
Qantas v Virgins, an incomplete scoreboard for August
September 30, 2009 – 3:40 pm
The Virgin Blue group operating statistics for August, like those of the Qantas group released yesterday, leave investors with an incomplete scoreboard in terms of comparing performances.
In this case Virgin Blue continues its practice of giving no statistics for yields.
Yesterday Qantas persisted with its practice of fudging the specifics of how Jetstar is tracking [...]
V Australia reminds Qantas how wrong it was about the 777
August 17, 2009 – 4:32 pm
Virgin Blue has really shown how it can punish Qantas for its absurd resistance to acquiring Boeing 777s.
The announced ‘phase two’ expansion of its V Australia fleet which rises to only four of these jets by December is going to be an enormous headache for Qantas.
And especially considering it holds orders or options for up [...]
Brett Godfrey looks for his successor, and for a big finish
July 27, 2009 – 5:00 pm
2010 looks like being Brett Godfrey’s biggest as well as last year as CEO of Virgin Blue.
In fact heading the succession selection process following his expected announcement this morning that he will leave his post as the first and so far only CEO of the airline in its 10th anniversary year seems some way down [...]
Virgin Blue announces $231m equity raising, a higher equity for Richard Branson and Brett Godfrey’s decision to leave the company by the end of 2010
July 27, 2009 – 10:14 am
Virgin Blue has revealed how it will fund its survive and expand strategy for the recession and the expected recovery, and a search for a successor to Brett Godfrey, who has decided to leave the airline he founded in 2010, its tenth anniversary year.
The unaudited figures and operating statistics for the year to 30 June [...]
Delta V-how it might work
July 11, 2009 – 12:26 pm
The chances of a trans Pacific joint venture by the Virgin Blue group of carriers and Delta have improved after the US Department of Transport approved anti trust immunity for Continental Airlines participating in the Star Alliance, which includes its major rival United Airlines.
The Department of Justice under the Obama administration had earlier voiced its [...]
Announcing Delta V, but will it fly?
July 9, 2009 – 10:17 am
Virgin Blue and Delta Airlines are seeking regulatory approval to fly the Pacific united, no not that United, but together.
But will the two airlines be allowed to get together as closely, if not closer, than Qantas and American Airlines get as members of the oneworld alliance?
Delta is the world’s largest airline. Like V Australia, [...]
Some last statistics from Qantas and Virgin Blue before things get even worse
June 30, 2009 – 5:27 pm
The May provisional traffic statistics from the Qantas and Virgin Blue brands are the last insights into their operations before black Friday, 3 July.
This Friday is the day Delta, the world’s largest carrier, enters the Australia-US market on the Sydney-Los Angeles route, and Singapore Airlines’ Jetstar clone, Tiger, takes on everybody and Jetstar in [...]
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