Virgin have no one to blame for this happening than themselves. We should have two strong competitors in the country but we have one profitable airline and one circus act... seriously, what is it now... 7 years without a profit (excluding what was it this year, first half, a couple of million off billions in revenue)... the MRB is a one person circus act, the "indestructible Mess-a-mo"... bought SkyWest then got rid of most of the aeroplanes. Bought Tiger and completely stuffed up the 737 and DPS operations, spent money like a drunken sailor and very little to show for it in way of returns... 777 across the Pacific apparently loses money, Australian DOM loses money, regional loses money, presumably now Tasman will lose money. This would have to be the longest string of bad decisions in aviation history (well, OK, maybe not, there was always Pan Am) but what the hell gives.
Idiots being promoted over competent people, people from Air NZ have been heard to comment that it wasn't just the profit it was the expectation that they (NZ) were to jump through hoops if VA had a problem but if NZ had a diversion or something they literally got to the point of just giving their passengers to QF anyway, rather than have them spend 3 hours wandering between NZ and VA counters while VA obfuscate acceptance of FIMs and other standard industry processes. A company that's losing money hand over fist can't even get it's act together to take revenue handed to them on a platter by a partner airline.
Not commenting on VA management is laughable on this forum. There are some great people that work for VA, their crew are really good, but the regime in power is hopeless, absolutely hopeless.
You couldn't write this stuff... it makes it all the more funny that the MRB has introduced lavish ads while he's been there and two of them were based on music used in... you guessed it... Pan Am ads...
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