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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.
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