What about those RED seats, mostly empty, sector after sector.
Maybe if they gave value for money for the RED seat they would get some takers.
I agree with you on that one. They need to be package more like a Qantas City Flyer or AirNZ Koru Hour flight particularly for flights aimed at business travellers. ie include coffee and a light snack. Personally I value the food and drink more than the extra legroom.
I find the way Virgin worded the capacity reduction as being OZ domestic while making it clear Pac Blue wouldn't be dropped interesting. It hints at further Pac Blue growth, (but the issues around crewing are well known here). The more traditional LCC format of Pac Blue does give it some room to undercut AirNZ.
Now that the Virgin Blue 738 and Pac Blue 738 differ in terms of IFE or not and red seats or not (ie have different cabin configs) and NZ cabin crew to pax ratios allow 1:50, I'm wondering if Pac Blue will reconfig the front half of the cabin to get an extra row of seats (eg remove 1 row of blue zone, drop seat pitch to 30" and remove front screen).