Virgin Australia callsign change

[Rob R]

If airborne at the time of the change over crew will use the current callsign ie virgin/bluey.

[Nigel C]

Originally Posted by Adam P.

Nope - everything's changing to Velocity. Two extra syllables, faaaaantastic...

Struggle with 4 syllable words, do you?

I heard an ATC'er in Sydney make the same complaint last week. Perhaps AsA need to change their training program to suit

[Stephen Brown]

Nige, it will just make those tower jockeys false teeth rattle even more. Comes from chewing all that dropped steak.

[Adam P.]

It has begun!
Overheard on Sunday:

Their new callsign should officially be 'Virgin Correction Velocity' - cos that's what I've been calling them all day!

There's been a lot of "Vir...ahh... Velocity123" and even a "Virrrrrrrrrlocity" or two as well over the last couple of days, from both sides of the mic. Taking a bit of getting used to!

[JamesP]

Saw this and thought I'd like to share:

Hitler reacts to Velocity via Youtube

[Joe Frampton]

Yes along with all this you will find the whole airline changing to VA in Feb or Mar next year (can't remember the date the Rep told me) No more DJ. Loads of IT people working on this right now and changeover will occur over a weekend, that is sure to be a fun period for everyone involved!

[Raymond Rowe]

Was also told that the old PB block of regos will be disapearing.They will be getting some new rego block as the management want all signs of PB gone.

[JamesL]

The change to VA will be when they change to Sabre.

[Rowan McKeever]

After the weekend they just had James, I'm guessing that change can't come soon enough!!

[JamesL]

Well they have been pushing it back for months... Guess that will be a pressing point to hurry up...