By March 2004, Virgin Blue forecasts it will be carrying 10.5 million passengers on an annualized basis, some 400,000 more than Ansett was carrying at June 30, 2001, Godfrey said. Virgin Blue will have a fleet of 40 Boeing planes compared to Ansett's 52 aircraft, which included a mixture of Boeing and Airbus planes.
If they pull this off it will be unbelievable, at that time I would guess it
will be under 3500 staff against when Ansett was about having 16,000,
only 87.5 staff per plane vs 307. Nerves starting to get jumpy about
holding my QF shares.
Wirraway