Bulldog69,
VB an unknown quantity? Really?
VB does have an AOC you know, just like that icon of australian aviation QF.
It does do CRM courses, it has a safety department (with crew members involved), and by some miracle the aeroplanes make it from A to B mostly intact!
QF and
VB are different, but
VB isn't better than QF AND QF is NOT better than
VB.
QF might have 18 odd years of running 737's around australia (assuming that the TN years are counted) but it doesn't have more experience of the NG than Virgin - Virgin was the launch customer of the type in Australia, and can quite correctly claim to have more operational experience than Qf on type....