It's interesting to see who is coming out against a govt bail-out of Virgin Australia and who is coming out strongly in favour of it.
Fairfax and The Australian appears to have a foot in both camps, most columnists are outright against it and some support some measure of govt assistance.
But if anybody caught GT on ABC Radio this morning, boy oh boy, he may as well take on a new job as a paid lobbyist for VA! It was actually embarrassing to hear and embarrassing that ABC gave so much air time to somebody who is supposed to be 'independent' yet painting the worst doom and gloom scenario for a world without Virgin Australia. Now I hope Virgin Australia survives, I am not a hater, but I'm not sold on the government giving them a billion dollars of taxpayer money, which will open the floodgates for other failed and failing companies and inevitably mean that the government ends up as a major shareholder of Virgin and suddenly the airline comes a political football instead of a business.
Anyway, more of GT's rabid "The Government MUST bail-out Virgin!" at
https://www.airlineratings.com/news/...port-airlines/ and also
https://www.airlineratings.com/news/...lion-10-years/
It looks like GT now has membership of Virgin's The Club as well as the Qantas Chairman's Lounge!