Virgin is launching there new airline route from South Africa to Australia, called VAustralia.
Yesterday I booked myself tickets on their maiden flight between Johannesburg and Auckland, with a stopover in Melbourne.
(I still don’t get the “FREE” stopover idea yet)
If anybody is planning on flying over, I’ll recommend you have a look at the flight costs for the launch of this new route which is on the 13th of March 2010. I bought tickets for 2 adults and 1 infant Economy for around R19000 return. Compared to some of the other airline costs this is quite low.
Our first concern flying with this new airline was the fact that it is a new route and would they be reliable. We were reassured by the call centre lady as it is falling under Richard Branson’s Virgin brand it would be top notch.
And they are using the reliable and standardised Boeing 777-300ER.
Look at this, a Boeing 777-300ER being put together very quickly 😉