VIrgin must really be in trouble. Branson has lashed out with some easily debunked fibs regarding the events of 2014.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/busine...b9b0e6c87afe1d
BILLIONAIRE Sir Richard Branson has accused Qantas of flooding Australia’s air corridors with planes in an attempt to put Virgin Australia airline out of business.
The boss of Virgin Group, which owns 10 per cent of Virgin Australia, also attacked Qantas for seeking financial help from the Federal Government in 2014 when it was struggling to make money.
Sir Richard was in Melbourne yesterday morning before he boarded the inaugural Virgin flight to Hong Kong, marking the beginning of the airline’s expansion into China.
The event involved Sir Richard carrying the head of a 32m-long Chinese dragon called Yar Loong through Tullamarine airport. But it was his comments on Qantas that stole the show.
“We’ve had Qantas throw everything they can at us and it has cost them more than it cost us,” Sir Richard said, referring to the capacity war in 2014. “They had to go cap in hand to the government ... the government quite rightly told them that it’s up to them to compete on a fair, level- playing field.”
He said Qantas then started to behave more “sensibly” and tweaked their domestic flight services. “The end result is they proved they did not need those billions they were asking government for,” Sir Richard said.
Absolutely no mention of the 400 million cash injection by Etihad and friends.