The current president of the USA being a prime example.

Voluntary administration is the only way to clean the debt book and start again with a much smaller but low cost focused single aircraft type operation between capital cities and main regional centres

Sunrise reports two consortiums circling at the moment.

Corporate raiders :bored:

Good. I hope that you guys end up in the hands of adult management with a cogent plan to run and grow your airline.

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And another thing: Where the F#@*K are the Greens. Not one mention in the last 4 weeks until I typed it in 14 words ago.

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Wtf are you rambling about? If you’re a Virgin employee then The Greens are your friend more than the libs atm.


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But what is there to raid? It's not like the near Qantas privatisation where there was oodles of cash and lovely things to siphon off.

Is closing Sydney Airport still a Greens policy ?. Nothing but Hippocrypts.

The only true wilderness is between a greeny’s ears.

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ENCORE!

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One Virgin source said it was not the company's preference to be taken over by "corporate raiders'' with little or no airline experience.

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This is hilarious for two reasons. They have a board and CEO with no airline experience. When you are in distress you don't get "preference" who rescues you.

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To all the people who don’t think Virgin Australia should get government assistance right now - take a look at what happens with an airline monopoly.

Currently Virgin Australia is operating on a very limited schedule of 6 days a week, one flight a day between Sydney and Melbourne. On Saturday there is no flight. Have a look at what Qantas is charging for a single sector between Sydney and Melbourne on a Saturday. When Virgin flys the price is $155 one way, when it doesn’t fly it’s $753 one way.

We need at least 2 airlines in Australia. Please be mindful of the devastating effect the collapse of Virgin would have on Australian travel and tourism.

Thanks Sunfish. No better source than some random from Facebook. I guess it’s settled then.

I'm not convinced with the argument that without Virgin air fares would go through the roof on the long term. I am old enough to remember the old days with TAA and Ansett with their cosy relationship along with APEX fares etc.
Back then if airfares were too high you made alternative arrangements to travel if on leisure,which is the bulk of travelers today. You allowed a couple of extra days to drive or catch a train or bus. There was no internet for video conferencing for business meetings.
Today is much different. Business travel is often able to be avoided. As for leisure travel if airfares go too high people will find other means. The low airfares have killed off train and bus travel. You can no longer catch a bus from Adelaide to Perth as Greyhound etc cannot compete with Jetstar and the like. Same with the Overlander train Adelaide to Melbourne only runs a couple of days a week. All other states are similar. Now if airfares were to skyrocket as suggested these modes of transport would become more frequent as they would be profitable again.
Would Qantas allow this to continue flying around with half empty aircraft and losing market share? I think not, as not a good business model.
In addition if airfares go too high that would entice other entrants into the market to cash in on the opportunity to grab the low end leisure travel.
Don't get confused with what is happening right now. Most of the flights during this pandemic are half full at best hence pushing up the price. Can't see that happening on the long term.

Sunfish are you aware how ticket price tiers work?

Yep if only there was website that takes all the flight cost and amalagamtes into one place so you can see all the cost of all flights on what ever day you want. Someone should make it and call it I dunno Webjet sounds like a cool name

In reality the Virgin flight is $179, the jetstar flight 45 minutes later is a $140 and the qantas flight of the day at 9am is $199

Fake news

After actually logging into the booking sites.

Qantas Saturday and Sunday one way $199
Virgin Sunday $169
Jetstar From Tuesday $79

How about you get over the whole Ansett thing and realise Qantas isn’t/wasn’t around to save you.

‘lifted from Facebook'...is about as relevant as quoting the Greens from Twitter! :}

Right up there with chooks Alan Jones quote!

Sunfish, its so obvious your just a Virgin Angel, paid to post pro Virgin commentary. Now your quoting from your favorite social media platform......and your facts are completely discredited by others......You should just slip back into the depths of the ocean and forget about your career as an Angel...

<insert lots of wikipedia information about how corporate's use paid angels to influence public sentiment>

Oh the irony of this!!!!

BTW I dont think your an Angel but its what you have spent several years of very aggressively accusing anyone else who has posted anything that contrary to your "anti QF" opinion in this forum.....

You have shown your hand - your are a VA apologist.