Virgin Australia

Virgin Australia airlines will be receiving one of the first Airbus A380's in less then two months.The order of the many new Airbus A380's is part of Virgin Australia's first phase in stream lining our growing fleet of 200 air crafts.The Airbus A340-200 and 777-200ER will be replaced with the A380 and deployed on highly competitive markets.With the delivery of the boeing 787 in the future this aircraft will replace all other aircrafts in the fleet and replace the Boeing 777-300ER.

We welcome all our members to the new virgin airline alliance.We will continue to work closely together with our members to make a great successful and modern alliance group.

All members post through this forum to keep in touch with all members in the alliance and post all request such as new connecting routes here as well.




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We are pleased to announce the latest member to Join the Virgin Blue group Qantas Link.

Pacific Blue and Qantas Link have won approval from Transport Minister Steven Joyce to cooperate on routes across the Tasman Sea, Australia and New Zealand.

The decision follows approval being granted by Australia's antitrust regulator this month, reversing its preliminary view, after the two airlines gave guarantees on growth in capacity.

Joyce was also swayed by their commitment to maintain passenger numbers on the Tasman, according to his statement.

The two airlines will code share on Tasman and connecting domestic flights and offer reciprocal frequent flyer and lounge access agreements. Their alliance was in response to Air New Zealand holdings two-airline strategy where its low-fare Budget Airline Qantas unit operates domestically in New Zealand and links to longer-haul flights on its parent.

Shares of Pacific Blue 2.7 per cent to $2.50 on the NZX and Qantas Link rose 1.1 per cent to 45.5 Australian cents on the ASX.

Joyce said other airlines on the Tasman "will continue to provide strong competition for the alliance on most routes within and between both Australia and New Zealand."

He authorised the alliance for a period of three years and said the time limit "will place a strong incentive on the two airlines to operate in a competitive manner."



"The Minister has recognised the benefits and value created for consumers by the alliance," said airline chief executive Chris Fernandez.

"I'm pleased that formal approval has been given, which combined with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's approval last week enables us to implement the alliance and deliver benefits to customers.

"Qantas Link and Pacific Blue will now form a team to ensure we move ahead quickly with bringing the alliance to life over the coming months. We look forward to being able to connect our customers between all Australian cities served by Virgin Blue and all towns and cities where we operate in New Zealand."

The Virgin blue group would like to announce the latest deal with Piedmont Atlantic Airlines one of the largest airlines in the Virgin Blue group with a high rank of 7 in the world.The benefits are endless and great for our alliance members.

Pacific blue operates an extensive network for Business and leisure passengers with many daily frequency's to give our passengers choice over their travel times, not strained times like other carriers.Pacific blue is The largest and National carrier for New Zealand and Australia.Pacific blue has come a long way in the past years with fantastic profitability and dealing with competition very well with connecting flights from our sister carrier, which has ranked up to a very high spot of 12 in the world.

Pacific blue has the largest market share in the following airports and has the ranking in the world of 28 for the largest airline.

Sydney

1st Pacific Blue 36%
2nd Vstar 24%

Melbourne

1st Pacific Blue 53%
2nd Vstar 15%


Brisbane

1st Pacific Blue 49%
2nd Vstar 13%

Perth

1st Pacific Blue 46%
2nd Vstar 17%

Adelaide

1st Pacific Blue 40%
2nd Vstar 29%

Christchurch

1st Pacific Blue 28%
2nd Air New Zealand 13%

Auckland


1st Pacific Blue 21%
2nd Virgin America (Pacific blue sister Carrier) 11%

Wellington

1st Pacific Blue 32%
2nd Air New Zealand 24%

Pacific blue is First for all the largest airports in Australia and New Zealand as a reward we have been given the name of the National Airlines for the Two countries.We are also first for many other airports in New Zealand and Australia but there are far to many to list.

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