V AUS How is it going??

[Higs]

I am supprised there have been no post as to V Aus inital operations.. Anyone in the know?

[sthaussiepilot]

There have been a few people talking about this in different threads... Also give it at least a month or more... You can hardly give an accurate future comment on vaus... Pure speculation otherwise

[ernestkgann]

I'm enjoying it! Nice to be flying after a long time in the sim. The hotel in LA is nice and the aeroplane is great. The company is working hard to deliver a good product and working environment.

[Rob D]

"working hard to deliver a good product and working environment"

that's a bit of a novelty!

[Higs]

Thanks ernestkgann, nice to hear that.

[Bootstrap1]

How many flights a week is it doing? I have seen it parked at Sydney 3 times this week, I thought it would be flying its butt off.

[forgetabowdit]

I can't directly answer your qn, suffice to say it is about 3 times a week with one aircraft full time. Goes daily as more aircraft arrive. The reason you have seen 'it' sitting around in various places, is that there is now more than one that has been delivered. The second one did LA yesterday so you probably saw VH-VOZ sitting around.

[Van Gough]

I'm enjoying it! Nice to be flying after a long time in the sim. The hotel in LA is nice and the aeroplane is great. The company is working hard to deliver a good product and working environment.

Its so refreshing to see a nice positive post on pprune for a change as opposed to the usual slagging matches

[inandout]

3 times aweek to LA, goes daily on 20th, Brisbane starts 8th next month. Then Melb 15th Sept then ...J...... and....H....and...K.... well can't say yet.

[walaper]

Bootstrap1 "IT" could be one of a couple or three on turn around. You should open you eyes and realize that EK SQ and others have A/C that spend several hours sitting on the ground. Suppose a conspiracy would be more enticing to you though.

[Howard Hughes]

Jerusalem, Honiara and Kalumburu?

Wal your observations re EK & SQ may be correct, but the difference is they don't have HALF their fleet sitting on the ground!

[Mr. Hat]

Julia creek, hughenden and kingaroy.

[2b2]

advertising $1799 to London via LA the other day.

Until recently you were struggling to get just to LA for that!

About time you didn't have to pay more to get to LA than Europe.

[Wingspar]

Sorry about thread drift but I wonder why Vaus isn't doing the HKG flights instead of Vatlantic?
I would of thought that would of been a nice earner for them. Certainly need the cash at the moment.

[43Inches]

My understanding is that Virgin Atlantic is 49% SQ owned so not going to be swapping profitable routes any time soon. It is also the reason the brand is V Australia, not Virgin Australia.

[greenslopes]

V Oz need to pull a rabbit out of the hat to improve VB's share price and ultimate survival...................

How exasperating!

[Shazz-zaam]

Any idea of the Passenger loads?

[HappyBandit]

I get it!

Mullah....

I get it!!! I am with Hughes on this one.....the cost of parking aircraft in Aus international airports is one of the highest in the Southern Hemisphere if not the world (I have seen factual numbers on this). In fact an operator a few years back was nearing the curfew and because of the massive expense in parking it overnight in Sydney the company decided to fly it to NZ for the night (after dropping off the pax obviously).

So I agree.....it must be costing an absolute fortune in parking their fleet.

[halas]

Who says these certain operators don't get a special rate as they do it all the time? A one-off may be very expensive.

Good luck to the guys at V Aus.

halas

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wingspar

Let me have a wild stab at this one..................

Maybe because they only have two aircraft which are already committed to daily LA's, along with the 3rd and 4th which are committed to Brisbane and Melbourne to LA.