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Old 14th February 2009, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Montague S View Post
what puzzles me is the fact that Emirates charge in excess of $3000 return to South Africa from Australia, yet Etihad only charge $1500 or so.
that's what airlines do, they try to undercut each other..

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Originally Posted by Owen H View Post
And how, exactly, do Virgin plan to get to South Africa?

I hope they are aware they can't go blasting off south like Qantas do! Not many airports at S70.

I wonder if passengers will be prepared to accept a flight that is a few hours longer (maybe even needing a tech stop?) in order to fly V Australia?
There have been quite a few IFSD with the GE90-115B in the Air France 777-300ER fleet.. as you mentioned it there's not a lot of airports in that area, might be pushing the ETOPS limit a bit
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