VS to SYD from 7 December?

Globaliser · 20th Jun 2004, 00:25

Have heard this evening that VS has picked a start date of 7 December for flights to Sydney, apparently to be announced on Monday. Can anyone confirm? If true, I may need to re-plan the December trip down under.

Of course, this extension to their network has been so long in the planning that it could be yet another false alarm.

srs what? · 20th Jun 2004, 13:12

There is apparently an announcement due tomorrow but whether it is regarding a start date for SYD or something else I can't tell you.

Tags · 20th Jun 2004, 18:25

I have it on good authority that the announcement tomorrow will be HKG-SYD from Nov/Dec.

Sure it will be on the Virgin Atlantic website as a press release if that is the case.

crewrest · 21st Jun 2004, 07:13

From here.

Quote:

Virgin Atlantic Airways, the full-service international airline of the Virgin Group, announced today that it would launch daily scheduled services between Sydney and London via Hong Kong, commencing on Wednesday, 8 December.

Tags · 21st Jun 2004, 08:43

Virgin Atlantic's Press Release

Globaliser · 21st Jun 2004, 08:55

Thank you all. 7 December can do, 8 December too late - so I will factor this in.

Interesting to see the man still peddling the nonsense about the BA/Qantas "duopoly". Why do the media allow him to get away with it? Presumably he still hasn't noticed that there will a plethora of CX aircraft flying alongside him on this exact route, let alone via other points?

Groundloop · 21st Jun 2004, 12:33

The media allows him to get away with it because the media are not overly concerned with facts and it makes a good quote!

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