Yes I suppose they're hardly going to shunt me onto the BA service that flies LGW - ANU to roughly the same schedule. As long as they are EU certified and I don't end up on some aging cold war relic.
Frankly I'd rather be given an option to cancel but I doubt that will happen unless lock down is still in place in October.
It's a shame as in my limited experience of long-haul I have always found Virgin to be an excellent carrier. I've flown them to LAS, BGI and ANU in the past two years. The aircraft were clean and modern and the cabin crew seemed happy and smiley. I hope they find a way through this for the sake of the people working there. I don't think their owner comes out of this looking very good.