Getting back to original "Virgin are cry babies" post - Query? If Virgin continually cry fowl and complain they do not get the same deals how is that they have a received a dispensation to the ANSETT ticket tax imposed on all other airlines? The ticket tax has been imposed as a $10 "per ticket" charge on all tickets purchased by the travller in Australia, except if from Virgin who have had it written into the act that they only have collect $5 per sector - I am reliably informed because they complained it was unfair on them because they were a smaller player and, wait for it, only sold one way tickets. ergo if you buy a one way ticket on QFLink on a regional flight 19 seater, or any other airline within Australia or OS you must pay $10 but buy a one way ticket on Virgin BNESYD pay only $5. I thought it was the pax who paid the tax not the Airline so who gets the marketting advantage. Whether you approve of the tax, levy, whatever, if its in, it should be the same deal for all.
It begs the question - way back in pre
VB days - if AN or QF got the tax breaks and incentives to expand/restructure that
VB got to start where would we(ie AN and the system)
be today.