Virgin Blue Teams up with Air Austral

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Air Austral Route Map connecting France with with

Australia and the South Pacific via Reunion Island.

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Virgin Blue, V Australia’s holding company and a leading low cost airline in Oceania has teamed up with Air Austral in an interline agreement to offer passengers seamless travel from Australia to France via Reunion Island, the majestic Indian Ocean Island Paradise.

This new partnership will offer passengers holding a single Air Austral ticket the convenience to have their luggage checked to their final Australian Domestic destination as well as a free shuttle offered by Virgin Blue to and from its domestic terminal to the international terminals at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport.

This new agreement expands the global reach of Virgin Blue; passengers now can either fly Trans pacific to North America and to Europe via the Indian Ocean with greater ease With amazing options to great holiday destinations either in the Pacific, North America, the Indian Ocean paradise of Reunion Island and Europe with Virgin branded airlines, Air Austral and their respective partners passengers have the world truly within their grasp.

Air Austral will fly from Sydney to Paris with a stop-over in Reunion Island on Tuesdays and Saturdays flying the ultra efficient, ultra comfortable, spacious and environmentally friendly Boeing 777 series aircraft.

Talking Point:
With various Asian gateway cities being the traditional connecting stop for passengers from Australia on their journey’s to Europe how with this new offer appeal to passengers and will Reunion Island see rapid growth in connecting and final destination passengers from Australia and beyond in this new partnership between Air Austral and Virgin Blue?

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V Australia sets its own standard

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A new Airline, a new spirit and new energy is in the Pacific Skies.

V Australia the new Australian international airline is setting its own standard on its transpacific routes to the USA. The new boutique airline offers passengers two bars on board to enjoy and satisfy their every taste bud.

V Australia offers business class passengers a fully stocked bar to relax, socialize and mingle high above the Pacific Ocean. V Australia’s International premium economy class is extended a similar courtesy with a bar of their own while a kiosk is in place for the economy class passengers to enjoy refreshments on their transpacific voyage.

V Australia has taken everyone into consideration with their offering to travelers and it hasn’t disappointed as passengers are embracing V Australia with open arms eager to try something different, refreshing, vibrant and energetic. V Australia has continued to offer something unique and different with a mood lighting system, touch screen monitors for in flight entertainment and a female only bathroom aboard its state of the art Boeing 777. It is certainly the new trend setter from down under and Less than three months since its inaugural service V Australia is sitting pretty high over the Pacific skies.

V Australia is giving passengers a new taste of Australia and changing the way we fly.

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G’Day from V Australia

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There is a new airline in town, a new airline is lighting up the Pacific skies from Down-under to tinsel town.

V Australia the new, refreshing, flamboyant boutique airline from down under boasts one of the youngest fleets flying the Boeing 777-300 series aircraft on its trans-pacific voyages from Australia to Los Angeles.

V Australia is the first airline to fly the 777 aircraft type trans-pacific to the USA from mainland Australia offering travelers another way to fly across the Pacific on the super quiet, environmentally friendly and super efficient aircraft. With the Boeing 777-300 being more efficient than its nearest competitor in its class V Australia will look to pass on the savings to its beloved travelers.

With less than three months since V Australia took to the skies with its inaugural service to Los Angeles from Sydney’s Kingsford Smith International Airport on February 27, 2009 and opening a second trans-pacific service from Brisbane on April 8, 2009, the boutique airline has experienced a flamboyant entry into the market and become a serious player on the trans-pacific route.

With V Australia keeping in line with its ambitions to fly from Melbourne starting September 15 to compliment the already established Sydney and Brisbane services it will deliver even more options for travelers and a new refreshing way to fly.

The new airline enters the market boasting a full range of products giving travelers a new taste of Australia. V Australia’s spacious three class configuration offers something for every traveler from its International economy and premium economy class to the state of the art International Business class.

The all new RED in flight entertainment system comes to the forefront to satisfy every passengers taste buds featuring on demand movies, music, games and a whole lot more all on a new 9 inch fully touchable and handset controlled screen. What else could you desire on your next voyage across the Pacific Ocean?

When you thought it was as good as it gets V Australia has stepped it up a notch offering mood lighting across all three classes for each phase of the flight relative to the time of day making each and every journey a relaxing and enjoyable one.

Coupled with V Australia’s new interline deal with Delta Air Lines to offer its travelers a world of opportunity to 379 destinations worldwide as well as seamless connections to all the major US cities and a vision to future environmental sustainability with its carbon offset program V Australia is placing itself in a league of their own, a new shining star flying the Pacific Skies.

Almost three months since it first took to the skies how is V Australia doing? It has been documented that V Australia’s introduction into the market has forced price reductions. Is a price war looming? Are these prices here to stay or is it just a market entry sweetener?

The question may loom of where to next for V Australia? But With news that it will offer mobile phone, blackberry and PDA connectivity that passengers can utilize during flight on board its state of the art aircraft to compliment the already implemented in flight entertainment system the question could may well be answered as the sky is the limit for V Australia and where to next may be somewhere unique and in a class of its own.

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Welcome to Fly Vee-Oz Transpacific

G'Day!

I would like this opportunity to welcome everyone to the Fly Vee-Oz transpacific blog. This blog is dedicated to bringing a slice of Australia to you, places to go, things to see and all through the eyes of Australia’s newest international airline V Australia.

I envisioned a celebration of Australia through profiling this wonderful emerging Airline from the land down under on its journey into the future and changing the way we fly.

Fly Vee-Oz transpacific will open Australia’s doors in a vibrant and refreshing way, I welcome you all and a very heart felt G’Day mate from Vee-Oz Transpacific.

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