Originally Posted by B772
(Post 10556814)
Will MM survive the chop ?
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So are any domestic services likely to be cut? Or do they all make money?
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Originally Posted by B772
(Post 10556814)
Will MM survive the chop ?
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Originally Posted by cooperplace
(Post 10556822)
So are any domestic services likely to be cut? Or do they all make money?
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VA should go back to DJ. Pretty much what Machtuk said.
They established themselves in a LCC type role, and then got handed a nice wedge of the market after AN's collapse. Delusions of grandeur meant they felt they could step up & compete with QF, but their brand & market was already established. Go back to competing with Jetstar & when the bottom line looks better, perhaps look at re-entering the premium market in conjunction with a cashed up partner. My 2c. (which is frighteningly close to their share price atm) |
Originally Posted by -41
(Post 10556766)
about a million per week - 47.4 million just in lease fees excluding other ancillary costs
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Originally Posted by Buster Hyman
(Post 10556823)
Already gone, in a teary farewell too.
The news just keeps getting better and better! |
It will be a teary farewell when go Gibbs!
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Originally Posted by G.A. Boy
(Post 10556861)
It will be a teary farewell when go Gibbs!
I’m sure they’ll all be having cake in the village that day! :ok: |
It has just been brought to my attention Paul Scurrah and Merren McArthur knew each other from Queensland Rail during the period 2010 - 2011. Merren may not have been up to the task required !
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I don't wish to add to the commentary here about what VA should or shouldn't be doing to return themselves to profitability..... it's not my area of expertise.
I do however, know a lot of good guys and girls who work there and it never a nice thing to go through. Amid all the negativity and bullish!t you must be hearing right now, I hope things settle down and sanity is restored. |
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MM reveals her best packing tips - looks like she'll have to use them. |
Originally Posted by B772
(Post 10556870)
It has just been brought to my attention Paul Scurrah and Merren McArthur knew each other from Queensland Rail during the period 2010 - 2011. Merren may not have been up to the task required !
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Originally Posted by Buster Hyman
(Post 10557050)
You think she was rail roaded....
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Hah, tell me about it. Telling them to stick their offer up their ass was a fabulous experience. Having interviewed for and been accepted by every major in the country, that lot were by far the worst to deal with during the interview process. If that's how you rejected a job offer I'd reckon they're pretty happy you didn't accept. Clown. |
Originally Posted by The name is Porter
(Post 10557074)
What a load of garbage. Accepted by them all eh? Must have been that PMI exam that got you in eh?
If that's how you rejected a job offer I'd reckon they're pretty happy you didn't accept. Clown. I'm pretty sure VA is busy worrying about the catastrophic performance of their business, rather than the many candidates who decided to go elsewhere after dealing with the appalling recruitment process. |
Originally Posted by havick
(Post 10556507)
haha I hope you’re joking. You do realize that virgin Australia is smaller than most regionals in the USA? Any US carrier would have zero interested in a failing business. |
Originally Posted by juliusg
(Post 10556692)
Colonel Klink is right on. Couple more points, lot of disparagement in these posts and some who clearly don't fly on VA. (I am VA and QF plat). The VA Business class exceeds QF every time in catering. Flew QF business yesterday Cairns-Sydney; one white, one red wine. That's a choice? No salad. Seeded sourdough or seeded sourdough. Fly VA business often interstate and USA & HK. VA can't be beaten in J. I suspect international will go as well as Tiger, since the results show a decent profit on domestic and 7% revenue growth. Get rid of the stuff that doesn't work, and possibly even ditch the Virgin branding as this costs millions each year too.
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Originally Posted by PlasticFantastic
(Post 10556723)
I'm not sure that's quite right. Qantas invested heavily in setting up Jetstar to 'pincer' Virgin Blue with an even lower cost product, leaving Qantas itself free to specialise as a full service carrier. JB's move to the current VA model was a response to the fact that VB was caught in the middle, and not winning.
The alternative wouldn't have been to leave VB as it was - it would have been to strip it back to a ULCC model, and JB's view at the time was that there wasn't space in Australia for two, full-size LCCs, and that they stood a better chance of taking corporate marketshare from Qantas. That's not a defence of JB - I think he lost sight of the need for cost control - but I do think he was right that there wasn't space for multiple LCCs. SQ learnt that with Tiger (and then JB bought it...), and NZ seem to realise this - hence their complete disinterest in entering the domestic market (well, that and having been burnt by Ansett). |
Originally Posted by smiling monkey
(Post 10556729)
It surely doesn't help when they are still paying for leases of E190 aircraft parked in Nashville, USA. How much is that costing them per year?
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