this issue is VS fares are not cheap - infact very often they are dearer than the likes of SQ or EK but the on-board product has been reduced to a shadow of its former self - 'back then' the fares were cheap but now its all tax and fuel and more fuel
surely you cannot tell me that with the buying power of VAA for airline catering that they cannot budget a decent meal for Y/W pax without fear of going into receivership? meals purchased by the millions cost buttons v.v other costs which VAA have consistently wasted £m's with meddling and fiddling around
The top end J product (and Prem econ) is where the bucks are but the product
has been tinkered and tattered with leaving many regular J pax kicking off and moving onto other carriers...
funny you mention DXB it is one route that VAA are rumoured possibly ditching - meddling with the domestic market did not help imho and infact MAN is stopping a rotation due lack of slots - which are loaned for that route.