I have it on good authority that the Government is supporting
VB financially.
It's not school holidays again is it?
The Virgin Blue group of airlines are doing OK.
Re-started MEL-DRW last week (mainly a freight contract, any PAX are just extra revenue) and added DRW-PER same day, PAX loads are about 80% on this one.
Next up is MEL-DPS & SYD-DPS and added services ADL-DPS
BTW what happened to the Darwin refueller on Tuesday afternoon?
The capt came on the blower with the usual flight details etc and said there was a fuel problem which would delay the departure to MEL.
The fuel problem was that the plane didn't have any fuel, and the refueller wouldn't be at the aircraft until 18:20 for a 18:15 departure, finally got away at 18:35.
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