V Australia launches fare sale

V Australia Airlines is offering return airfares to the United States of America for up to 45% off the normal economy fare. V Australia is on sale with thousands of AUD1199* fares from Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne to Los Angeles.

 

The sale follows confirmation of V Australia’s new launch date of 27–Feb-09. The airline’s original launch date of 15-Dec-08 was delayed due to industrial action at the Boeing factory in Seattle, which slowed down the delivery of V Australia’s launch aircraft.

V Australia has announced it will take delivery of its first new 777-300ER on Australia Day (26-Jan-09) with the aircraft due to touch down in Australia for the first time on 09-Feb-09.

The delivery date has paved the way for V Australia to confirm the launch date of 27-Feb-09 for its historic trans-Pacific inaugural flight from Sydney to Los Angeles. The airline will initially operate three weekly direct services before ramping up to daily flights from 20-Mar-09 following the delivery of additional 777-300ER aircraft.

V Australia Executive General Manager, Scott Swift, said, “While we never took our foot off the pedal, the team is now in full flight preparing for the delivery of our first aircraft, subsequent approval processes and of course the actual launch of Australia’s newest long haul airline.”

He continued, “From the outset, we committed to launching an airline that offered an outstanding and innovative three class option across the trans-Pacific. We also committed to offering value for money fares and the $1199* return all-inclusive fare currently on offer is almost half the normal fare and is very much in the spirit of V Australia and the festive season.”

The AUD1199* sale is for flights from Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne to Los Angeles and is on sale now until 29-Dec-08 with a travel period 01-Mar-09 to 24-Oct-09.

V Australia has also confirmed 08-Apr-09 as the revised launch date for direct Brisbane-Los Angeles flights, with three weekly direct flights to LA, the gateway to the USA.


(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 18-Dec-08



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