I had a day off today (rarity these days), so I ventured into downtown. I may make a trip to Central America later in the year so I am checking out ticket prices. It seems to cost around $3000 mark for a return economy fare, and up to $11000 for a first class fare (for those filty rich despicable people - lol!). Unfortunately, I will be traveling in the former class.
All of the flights are ex-LA, so I walked into Flight Centre on Elizabeth Street to ask them if they had any idea about V-Australia’s prices. According to V-Australia’s site, direct flights to LA start mid December, although they seem to change the date from time to time. When I checked the site - which was a couple of weeks ago, they had no indication of the price. I checked after going to Flight Centre and it seems during low season it will cost around $2009 (conditions apply of course).
The funny thing was, the Flight Centre lady had no idea what V Australia was. I told them it was Virgin’s initiative to fly to LA from Australia. Still not ringing any bells. I was thinking if she has driven in any major freeway in Melbourne, or watched TV, or heard the radio in the last few months. Only 1 of the staff members had heard of V-Australia. I almost burst out laughing when I exited the store.
Have you heard of V-Australia? Is it fair for me to expect them to know what it is? I thought it was.
That’s really quite unprofessional… They should have at least been including stuff in the company updates so as to prepare their staff for questions!
BTW Raj, you should sign up to Feedburner and have your feed link pointing to them. In that way you can track your stats and see how many subscribers you have. Although it only counts the ones that sign up under that link.
Joined Feedburner. Thanks.