Is Virgin Australia planning to return to the SYD to CBR route with ATR72s? The reason I ask is that from Monday 26/7/21 the Virgin booking site shows nine direct flights per day on the route operated by ATRs. Prior to this date there are no direct flights available, the system offering flights only via MEL.
The flights have what look to be genuine flight numbers but are only operated by ATRs. I presume that Virgin may either operate the services themselves, defying their one aircraft mandate, or lease some of their ATRs in storage to Alliance or another airline to operate the flights on Virgin's behalf.
Any comments from any other members on the likelihood of Virgin returning to this route? Competition for REX who also intends to operate the route.
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