Virgin Blue voted best low cost airline in the world
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Early days for virgine Blue. Take a look at industrial relations with easyjet and Ryanair.
AA top economic fare airline. Massive joke !!
What about Singapore Airlines or Emirates for that matter! I believe Emirates won Skytrax awards twice in a row SO WHO is P****** in WHOSE POCKETS?
Been on all the above airlines and AA is *****!!
Its all PR Crap anyway!!:o :o :o
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AA top economic fare airline. Massive joke !!
What about Singapore Airlines or Emirates for that matter! I believe Emirates won Skytrax awards twice in a row SO WHO is P****** in WHOSE POCKETS?
Been on all the above airlines and AA is *****!!
Its all PR Crap anyway!!:o :o :o
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The rat offers an efficient service within Australia and to some overseas destinations that satisfy a lot of Australian travelers. Any person who has spent time overseas will quickly discover their offerings are “very Australian” and offer little interest to the vast majority of overseas (non Australian) travelers.
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I live in Oz and travel to outwith this country on a regular basis.
My method of booking consists of searching a few tried and trusted travel agents web sites, getting the cheapest price and booking my seat.
Not once have I ever flown Qantas or their sister airline BA as their prices dont even come close to what others can give.
I will give you an example what I got yesterday for 2 adults and 3 kids from the Uk one way
Malaysian $7,000
Sigapore Airlines $ 4,160
Qantas $10,450
BA $25,685
Maybe if they became more competative outside Oz more people would travel with them and they might get to put an appearance in on the aforementioned polls
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The rat offers an efficient service within Australia and to some overseas destinations that satisfy a lot of Australian travelers. Any person who has spent time overseas will quickly discover their offerings are “very Australian” and offer little interest to the vast majority of overseas (non Australian) travelers.
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I live in Oz and travel to outwith this country on a regular basis.
My method of booking consists of searching a few tried and trusted travel agents web sites, getting the cheapest price and booking my seat.
Not once have I ever flown Qantas or their sister airline BA as their prices dont even come close to what others can give.
I will give you an example what I got yesterday for 2 adults and 3 kids from the Uk one way
Malaysian $7,000
Sigapore Airlines $ 4,160
Qantas $10,450
BA $25,685
Maybe if they became more competative outside Oz more people would travel with them and they might get to put an appearance in on the aforementioned polls
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Ever heard of Yield management systems, McIce, or know how they work?
If BA charged that on every seat on every flight, there would be no BA. I suspect what you saw then was the price for the last five seats on the aeroplane and the QF ones were for the last 15 or so.
You book early enough on QF you can beat VB fares, notice how VB have gone away from the lowest fare type advertising of late?
If BA charged that on every seat on every flight, there would be no BA. I suspect what you saw then was the price for the last five seats on the aeroplane and the QF ones were for the last 15 or so.
You book early enough on QF you can beat VB fares, notice how VB have gone away from the lowest fare type advertising of late?
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It amazes me how people go on about the pricing of both airlines in this country. To say that if you book on Qantas early enough that the price will be cheaper is not looking at the big picture.
Until Virgin blue came into Australia the price of air travel was one of the highest in the world. Some competition arrives and the prices come down. If they are sustainable now, why were'nt they the prices that they are now all the time. I will agree that sometimes qantas is cheaper than Virgin most times, but look whose pricing is more consistent and more flexible. There are more conditions attached to the cheaper Qantas flights.
Until Virgin blue came into Australia the price of air travel was one of the highest in the world. Some competition arrives and the prices come down. If they are sustainable now, why were'nt they the prices that they are now all the time. I will agree that sometimes qantas is cheaper than Virgin most times, but look whose pricing is more consistent and more flexible. There are more conditions attached to the cheaper Qantas flights.
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Duscussion has meandered away from 'The Poll'. As any spin doctor will confess , "you don't spoil a good story with the facts'. It's a bit the same here. A poll is a poll is a poll. Don't spoil it by saying that those polled were from the dark side of the moon and had never been to earth, let alone Oz. But then, who's to say that DJ is not 'keeping the air fare' up there? What a joke.
