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Voluntary Administration Woes For Virgin Australia

In a time where Aviation itself is at an ultimate standstill due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, Virgin Australia’s future remains a mystery. Latest reports flooding news outlets and social media suggest that Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd are on the brink of voluntary administration. An airline that rose to its stature after a slow […]

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Virgin Australia Temporarily Stops Points Transfers To Singapore Airlines

This post isn’t going to be the standard size of my regular articles but instead more of a quick update in regards to all of the information going around with airlines and their programs. Virgin Australia has obviously been hit pretty hard with the virus and it’s impacted their operations dramatically, it’s very saddening to […]

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Virgin Australia To Ground Almost Their Entire Fleet + 8,000 Staff Temporarily Without Jobs

As more countries go into lockdown around the world, airlines are very busily making adjustments to their schedules and trying to get everything under control as the damage from COVID-19 continues to unravel at unprecedented levels. Carriers around the world are quickly looking at removing aircraft from their fleet, and in worse cases, bankruptcy is […]

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WOW – Virgin Australia Will Ground Their Entire International Fleet

As the COVID-19 virus continues to cause major problems around the globe, airlines are constantly making changes to their schedules and at a rapid rate, grounding fleets of aircraft. Virgin Australia previously outlined its intentions only three days ago on the 15th of March explaining that they would be reducing both their international and domestic […]

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Virgin Australia Improves Its Change & Cancellation Policy – Everything You Need To Know

COVID-19 is no doubt going to be one of the most impactful things happening in Aviation over the next year and even into the coming years. While it’s visibly hurting tourism and economy’s around the world, airlines are really feeling the pain, and some are also close to major financial problems. Our Australian airlines have […]

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Virgin Australia Will Be Making Capacity Cuts

It’s no secret the past couple of years haven’t been the easiest for Virgin Australia, and unfortunately, the whole situation doesn’t seem to be changing anytime soon. The airline has been making losses year after year due to an apparent restructure in management that was never successful. The airline also operated their Hong Kong services […]

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Velocity Points Are Now More Useful For Delta Air Lines Flights

Lately, we’ve been seeing some small but still pretty great things being rolled out from Virgin Australia’s Velocity frequent flyer program – let’s just hope that this is a sign of more things to be introduced. As you’re aware, Virgin has a partnership with Atlanta based carrier Delta, similar to how Qantas has a partnership […]

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Transfer Flybuys Points To Velocity For A Chance To Win 1 Million Velocity Points

Virgin Australia first started their partnership with supermarket rewards program, Flybuys, back in 2016 and it’s still used more than ever and quite popular among shoppers. The unique partnership not only allows you to earn Velocity points but also status credits, this is a great incentive for customers to earn more for what they’re spending. […]

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Virgin Australia & Virgin Atlantic Announce New Partnership

Both Virgin Australia and London based carrier, Virgin Atlantic have today signed a new partnership which will enable passengers to easily and effortlessly travel from Australia to the United Kingdom or vice versa. Basically the airlines have signed a codeshare agreement and what this does is basically make the travel more streamlined. In this case, […]

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