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Unfortunately with the premium cabin comes a change in attitude aimed at those on the front side of the curtain.

I doubt VB would be doing as well in the current market.

Unfortunately the VA transition had to happen.

Dominic says: I liked Virgin Blue.

Virgin Blue had character, not the blandness that is Virgin Australia.

VH-OJA finds a retirement home

Michael says: A good mate of mine who is sadly no longer with us remembers picking his great aunt up at Mascot in the early 1970s having flown from England on the then new Boeing 747.

He related to me he could not believe the amount of people coming through the gate, and could not believe they could all fit on one aeroplane.

Also consider this in engineering terms – the fuel load alone that a 747 can lift exceeds the weight of a fully prepped Boeing 707 ready for takeoff – that’s 180 passengers plus fuel plus food plus freight, etc.

It is indeed one of the icons of the 20th century, thank you Joe Sutter! Warwick Etheridge says: Well done Qantas management on taking the decision to donate this most significant aircraft to HARS and not let her just slip away into the Californian desert to a very uncertain future.

If Canberra was not a possible location for VH–OJA (City of Canberra) to retire to then the HARS group of passionate folk at Albion Park is mostdoubt VB would be doing as well in the current market.

definitely the right final landing spot for her.

Now what about preserving one of Qantas’s Boeing 767 jets that have been retired to the Alice Springs storage facility? Those wonderful aircraft form a significant part of our aviation history and have made an invaluable contribution to Qantas’s history too.

Such an aircraft is most worthy of preservation here also.

Jetgo cites lack of corporate support for dropping Sydney-Gladstone

Robert Beard says: Can anyone tell me why all these airlines that want to come to Gladstone always last for about two months? I have been here for 40 years and have seen it over and over again.

What has QantasLink got over you people?

Scoot’s Dreamliner to debut on February 5 on Singapore-Perth route

Richard Wallace says: Flew from Singapore to Perth January 2 with Scoot and was amazed at how relaxed I got off the plane in Perth.

Did not recline my seat once and heaps of legroom (I am 178cm though).

The best airline experience I have had flying economy (always fly economy).

Way to go Scoot, you have won a customer.

First new Kiwi Super Seasprite arrives in Auckland

Damian says: I’d love to see the logbooks of some of these machines….

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first built in ’60s, stored, rebuilt, a few flights, stored, worked on, maybe fixed, stored, test flown, stored, returned to manufacturer, stored, rebuilt, stored, sent to NZ…