re staff moral i never mentioned any big pay rise as a 'fix'
- you can ''team'' everyone up even without a pay rise if you do it well...
as you state yourself =
- staff have to be inspired and believe in their product!
(thus not sure where you got 'giving a big pay rise' from my dialogue)
re little red-
VS have dibbled and dabbled over the last 15+ years with Virgin Sun, Virgin Express and now Red ...
VS still do not have any tie up with their very own Oz counterparts Virgin Australia (nee Virgin Blue, Virgin Pacific, V Australia, Virgin Polynesia et al)
Virgin Oz has preferred a tie up with Ethiad through Abu Dhabi rather than DXB or HKG or LAX/SFO with VS flights. how odd...
The VAA Flying Club agreement with the VS Oz airline is pretty pathetic too.
(and Qantas dumps BA through BKK/SIN and joins EK through Dubai)
from the loads Virgin's JNB, Lagos and HKG could easily be double daily year round out of LHR and they still dither about on routes.
dithered with A380 - launch customer - lost opportunity