Group of Australian pilots to start virtual airline
Group of pilots to start virtual airline
There seems to be a group of pilots, starting a virtual airline, who might be trying to fill in, where V2 won’t be flying.
(could they be working in with JetRaro?)
Guess they don’t need to be paid for a while, so would have to be pilots who don’t have big expenses like big mortgages to pay.
Presume they’d use Virgin mark 2 or Rex jets aircraft.
No word on routes, frequency or start date.
Speculation ?
NZ, Pacific Islands or could they even fly to LAX using VA 773s ?
There are a lot of routes, especially out of BNE, where VA was dominant carrier, eg. Queenstown, Dunedin(only operator) + also BNE & MEL to Fiji.
Plus QF will be only carrier BNE/LAX.
Viable ?
Possibly, if they keep overheads very low & keep it simple.
For NZ/Pacific, they could do out & back.
LAX ?
Well the VA 773 (did VA own 4 & lease 1 ?) aren’t going to sell for very much or in a hurry. The owner of the leased aircraft, might actually like to see their 773 doing something.
Crewwise, could probably use 1 crew to LAX & same crew back 2 days later, with aircraft parked at LAX.