https://www.executivetraveller.com/n...dney-melbourne

VA axes what remains of the domestic network except for a single SYD-MEL service. This leaves only the single SYD-MEL service and the charters as the operating flights in the VA network.

Are we witnessing the death knell of VAH?

If Virgin goes under, can VARA survive on its own or will Virgin take VARA down with it?

VARA is Virgin

VARA is Skywest. Seperate AOC.

The cats arse will be back. The fokker 50s ferried back in from whoever, wherever, and they’ll roll on again. Like last time.

Hope you're right....... What was the AOC status for VANZ and Tiger?
Genuine question

If VARA have their own AOC there is a chance it could be resuscitated and sold off.

RIP VA, the little leprechaun will be very pleased!

Skywest and Hazelton/Kendall (now REX), which were all on separate AOCs from mainline AN's AOC, was sold off and restarted when AN collapsed.

VA regional is using the Skywest AOC. So it'll likely be the same case if VA was to file voluntary administration shortly, Skywest (VA Regional) would be restarted through the existing VARA AOC as soon as it's possible after administration.

Minus the Virgin name, so Branson who didn't come to the rescue can't make his 10%.

a standalone VARA would be easily destroyed by AJ.

So we get left with ******* Qantas. Here comes $1000 Melbourne Sydney flights and $3000 economy to Europe. All to keep a bunch of cosseted prima donnas in Sydney. Get rid of Qantas. They are a bunch of parasites.

The AOC is separate:
Holder Name:
VIRGIN AUSTRALIA REGIONAL AIRLINES PTY LTD
Town/City:
WELSHPOOL
State:
WA
AOC Holder Country:
Australia
Type of AOC:
Australian
CASA Office:
Western Region
Operations:
Aircraft Charter, RPT
AOC Application Status:
Issued
Issue Date:
27/09/2019
Expiry Date:
30/09/2022

She'll be right QQ will buy the mainline 73 AOC 😂 minus the Branson baggage

Qantas about to announce 1B737, 1A230 and 1DH8 operation too.

Sunfish you are a parasite yourself.

You have states closing down their borders - absolutely no one is flying.

Have you been to an airport recently? I have:
Melbourne - was empty with hardly any cars driving from the Tulla up to departures or arrivals.
Sydney - we taxied for 34L (as they were only using one runway) and there wasn’t a single arrival or departure the whole time, and we were the only ones taxiing.
Gold Coast - we were the only RPT flight for the day

In case you haven’t realised, the country is in lockdown. What’s the point in flying empty aircraft around? I’m not sure what loads on QF (I would be genuinely interested to know) are like, but they are very very low on VA.

And as the poster above said, QF aren’t far from doing a similar thing. To be honest, I’m glad VA got in first with this - I would hate to know how much money is being spent flying around empty planes.

My interest is the development of the australian economy.

‘It is axiomatic that this requires Australian companies to be outward looking and internationally competitive to grow and prosper for the benefit of the Australian economy. To be clear, that term benefit means investment, international sales through competitiveness and resulting jobs and prosperity.

To achieve the above requires seamless and efficient international travel capability, inbound and outbound, from Australia.

Qantas does not provide anything like a service that supports the rest of the Australian economy.

To put that another way, your ‘30,000” jobs are at the expense of maybe 500,000++ Australian jobs because you act as a gatekeeper or parasite, preventing fast seamless access for Australian business to the rest of the world. In addition, your international services are biased towards Sydney which gives NSW a larger share of inbound investment than it warrants.

You and your management are quite capable of strangling any economic recovery post Covid - 19. Therefore it would be better for Australia to either nationalize you or let you go to the wall so that we can have true unfettered competition.

To put that another way, Qantas monopoly is a disaster for the Australian economy.

Nothing personal. You are just an economic pest.

QF basically have already.

Loads are low on all airlines but there are goods and people that still need to be moved intercity by air quickly, they can’t wait for the long times that road transport takes in Australia. Freight, mail, organ transplants, compassionate travel, transfer of key critical health, emergency and government personnel. A lot of trade is now being done online and by order instead of in stores, lots of that goes by air and the current freight only fleet isn’t big enough to carry it all, there’ll need to keep some pax aircraft airborne transporting a lot of that freight so they might as well sell some tickets. There is only a skeleton network operating, but the government will need to subsidise that bare skeleton network for critical issues. It actually wouldn’t cost too much for a few months as it’d be no more than a one or a few flights per day between cities.

The airlines will also need to keep some pilots current or when the lockdowns are lifted and 5 million Australians want to travel and visit their family and friends all over the country again (in China as soon as the lockdowns were lifted people flocked everywhere) and get the economy back on track there won’t be enough current pilots to fly them all suddenly.

this is a brilliant post. Long enough to print out and use as toilet paper.

axiomatic? Been a while mate, welcome back.