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Australia hotel quarantine costs: Sydney now charging $3,000 user-pays
Jul 15, 2020, 04:40 PMChange your name to Dani and it will all be ok. You will get a medical exception to stay at your own residence...what a double standard and a joke.
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Qantas gives grounded frequent flyers bonus status credits
Jul 14, 2020, 04:14 PMI am plat one...had requalified for this year but was given it anyway for another year...with my current status expiring in May 2021 I have very little chance of retaining as I have no ability to fly...so these credits are kinda useless...
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Australia hotel quarantine costs: Sydney now charging $3,000 user-pays
Jul 14, 2020, 12:45 AMAbsolutely wrong. We are all citizens of this country and have every right to enter and this serves as a deterrent. You are not familiar with personal circumstances of those who have not come back. That said it should be completely their choice!If the government wants to enforce quarantine, they ...
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John Borghetti: why Virgin Australia "had to attack Qantas"
Jun 30, 2020, 12:30 PMExactly Joe. The four corners episode had a board chairwoman really crab walk away from responsibility. The board allowed an ownership structure that had virtually no free float of shares and conflicted shareholders. Debt was a huge issue, but arguably as big an issue was a ownership structure th...
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Post-coronavirus airfares: fly Sydney-Melbourne for $19?
May 06, 2020, 12:02 AMLove it...My key competitor is currently undergoing a sales process and is in trouble. AJ's play - announce I am going to stimulate demand with unsustainable prices that meet my cash costs only...end result is it spooks possible buyers and the sales process delivers a poorer outcome and at in the...
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Virgin Australia's $150m loan from Velocity "an investment"
Apr 29, 2020, 01:40 PMWow - the trustee has some serious questions to answer....
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Finding a buyer for Virgin Australia is a job worth $30 million
Apr 26, 2020, 12:20 AMInteresting reading these posts...no doubt Australia needs and can sustain two airlines. Reality is Virgin is a good airline that was badly run. It has a diabolical share register with no free float, 90% held by vested and conflicted shareholders. They had huge debt because (i) they didn't run ...
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BA flights hit as Singapore extends coronavirus 'circuit breaker'
Apr 15, 2020, 06:31 PMHopefully they consider a re-route to Perth.
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Coronavirus refunds on cancelled Qantas, Virgin Australia flights
Apr 12, 2020, 10:45 PMWhere it get interesting is when you have booked through a provider like Webjet...Are you subject to their terms and conditions or the airline?
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What ls the rumour - they are restricting SQ redemptions and making it harder to use miles through vouchers etc.In the current environment where they have also publicly asked government for help (that ain't the first card you play) it's clear they have a funding issues and they are facing an exte...
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It's a sign of the trouble they are in...hard to see them surviving...the fact they ran to government meant they were not going to get any equity...now this... hope they survive, but they need to press a serious reset button
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British Airways cancels flights to Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong
Apr 02, 2020, 06:54 PMHopefully they return with a 787 service to Sydney via Perth
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Melbourne Airport now offers free parking until June 30, 2020
Apr 02, 2020, 06:51 PMThings must be really bad...
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Will they extend the expiry of PPS vouchers that cannot be used as you're not flying and cannot buy in flight duty free?
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Govt rules out nationalising Virgin Australia
Mar 30, 2020, 05:39 PMGoing into bankruptcy should be exactly what Joyce should fear (for Virgin). The best thing for Virgin given its diabolical share register is for them to rid themselves of self interested shareholders who also have representation on their board. Clean out the Board, the share registry and this ...