Virgin Australia shares suspended as the airline hovers on the brink of bankruptcy

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• David S says:

  15 Apr15 April 09:26

  Watch out as well for Car Hire notifications. We are overseas and got told at 5 hrs notice that they were closing the rental facility until 15th May and that all other rental companies were already closed. If you want to return before 15th May you have to drop the car keys at their off airport place and walk to the Airport. When you see those articles on where do they park the aircraft and then look at where park the cars, it’s just a sea of cars parked inches apart

• Wetboy1uk says:

  15 Apr15 April 12:29

  How about an article on fhr parking as i am still waiting foe a refund from them for parkingmhitel booking despite millennium telling them to make the refund a month ago!!! Absolutely disgusted with them. Seems everyone complains about the big boys but these smaller companies seem to get away with any bad publicity.

  • Rob says:

    15 Apr15 April 13:16

    Most of the small operators are cowboys and generally perceived as such, I thought. Most people are grateful if they get their car back with less than 500 miles added to the mileage and no extra damage.

    • Wetboy1uk says:

      15 Apr15 April 14:15

      They all use the same car parks and hotrls though. I am not tslking about one that uses dodgy car parks. Never mind. Clearly your only out to discredit the big boys.

      • Rob says:

        15 Apr15 April 14:48

        In general we only write about things when there are a critical mass of complaints – by definition we rarely get a critical mass about smaller operators. There is also an editorial decision over whether it is worth giving airtime to businesses that no-one has heard of.

• Olly says:

  15 Apr15 April 12:52

  Seems like it’s not just LGW who are delaying refunds. Marriott have told me it’ll be 90 days before I see my hotel deposit refunded, and same with the taxes due back from a Virgin redemption too. Also extends to trains – SWR told me it’d be a fortnight for the season ticket refund to be processed, but a month on, still no sign of it back in the account.

• Waddle says:

  15 Apr15 April 13:30

  Morgan Stanley advising UK Government on £500m Virgin Atlantic bailout.
  Source: Sky News City Editor

  • Genghis says:

    15 Apr15 April 13:38

    I thought Rothschild & Co were advising HMG?

    • Waddle says:

      15 Apr15 April 13:42

      They might be advising the Government on bailout requests from all airlines as a whole and MorgStan are focusing on VS.

      Article is here:
      https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-ministers-hire-wall-street-giant-on-virgin-atlantic-talks-11973599

• AJA says:

  15 Apr15 April 13:55

  That accident is unfortunate. The ground handling agent, will have a hefty insurance bill to repair both aircraft. Fortunately the BA plane was only a cargo flight so no BA passengers were inconvenienced. Not sure if the Emirates plane was empty. About 12 years ago I was involved in an insurance claim after a LSG catering truck hit a brand new Qatar Airways 777 at LHR and punched a hole in the side (it had just flown its maiden flight to LHR and was preparing to fly back to Qatar). The bill for accomodating first & business class passengers on any available flight that night and the hotel bills and subsequent airfares for all other passengers over the following couple of days was about £250k and that was before the repairs to the aircraft and the parking and landing fees payable to LHR while the plane was moved to a remote stand for a few weeks while repairs were carried out.

  • Lady London says:

    15 Apr15 April 18:45

    Wonder how big was LSG Catering’s next insurance premium after that one? 🙂

• Carl says:

  16 Apr16 April 00:00

  Just realised I forgot to cancel a Gatwick Parking booking for 8th April until 14th. Do I have any chance of getting this back given that my EasyJet flights were cancelled, would I be able to claim it through insurance? Was Gatwick parking even open between those dates?

• Eli says:

  16 Apr16 April 16:18

  An A350 also suffered a heavy landing at TLV a few months ago in stormy weather and was put out of work for a few days,
  Some bad luck there

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