In 2014, Virgin Australia discontinued their flight between Melbourne and Los Angeles. The airline has a fleet of only five Boeing 777 aircraft, and continued to operate their flights from both Brisbane and Sydney to Los Angeles. Since Virgin Australia is partly owned by Etihad, they've instead used one of the planes to operate a…
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As a loyal VA flyer from PER, this actually makes me both happy and sad.
Happy as it means I don't get hit with the Velocity Etihad tax (around $210US per sector on Etihad awards) because I can now find space on VA metal instead to AUH.
Sad because it means we are further reducing the number of VA A330s on the trans-con routes which kinda sucks for business travel but oh well, they had their reasons right?
You should review VA on a longhaul i.e. lax-syd and on a transcon i.e. Syd-Per and then fly Qantas back to the US in with the same routing
@Hugh B
It sounds interesting, but the fact is that is very difficult on an award ticket.
So if it shows one-way award space on the Delta website for 80,000 miles, does this mean there is available space to book this with 80,000 Elevate points for the Roundtrip?
Thanks
The A332 sure has long legs. Anyone know what the longest flight routes in the world are that are operated by the A332/3?
As an American married to Australian, I'm thinking we need to keep to our current practice of paying cash for our biennial Melbourne Christmas trips and bank those miles toward Europe, S. America, etc. Sigh.