Anyone tried LAX-SYD direct?

Saw a recent article trumpeting the 777 service from LAX-SYD on Virgin Australia; has anyone any knowledge of what the route/service is like, or how it compares pricewise to what's available LHR-HKG-SYD etc?

Thanks.

Jetstreamer I believe did do a flight and made a TR which can be found here.

I am not sure of what class you are looking to fly in however if they do not have the same J seats as UC.

On the whole I have heard good things about V Australia and the crew are fantastic (IIRC mainly DJ staff who transferred).

Price wise I am not sure, however given the competition on the route there always seems to be a good fare on offer. They do have some sale fares on at the moment and I guess if you can combine this with a good price to LAX on VS or even NZ then you will be laughing.

I did hear they were launching a NAN service also, to replace the current DJ service, however I cannot find reference to this on their site and may have gotten confused with Pukhet which they are starting (as well as JNB).

THere was a recent TR on the SYD-LAX leg in Econ which may help

http://www.v-flyer.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29642

Do we have access to LAX-SYD fares? From the UK site it doesn't look like it?

quote:Originally posted by vizbiz
Do we have access to LAX-SYD fares? From the UK site it doesn't look like it?


Not sure what you mean by access. If you go on the V Australia website I believe you can book. I say this because when living in NZ a couple of years back, the DJ website was accepting UK and NZ registered cards for Australian internal flights.

quote:Originally posted by willd
quote:Originally posted by vizbiz
Do we have access to LAX-SYD fares? From the UK site it doesn't look like it?


Not sure what you mean by access. If you go on the V Australia website I believe you can book. I say this because when living in NZ a couple of years back, the DJ website was accepting UK and NZ registered cards for Australian internal flights.


I've tried going on to the Australian site and booking SYD-LAX but it only offers me routing via LHR, and then I tried going on the US site and booking LAX-SYD but again it would only offer me a routing via LHR. Why am I not offered the most logical routing???[?]

quote:Originally posted by vizbiz

I've tried going on to the Australian site and booking SYD-LAX but it only offers me routing via LHR, and then I tried going on the US site and booking LAX-SYD but again it would only offer me a routing via LHR. Why am I not offered the most logical routing???[?]


Works fine for me. What dates are you trying?

[honey lamb]

quote:Originally posted by vizbiz


I've tried going on to the Australian site and booking SYD-LAX but it only offers me routing via LHR, and then I tried going on the US site and booking LAX-SYD but again it would only offer me a routing via LHR. Why am I not offered the most logical routing???[?]

When you say you are going to the Australian site do you mean the Australian site on the Virgin Atlantic website? If so that will give you a routing via LHR. You need to go to the Virgin Australia website. Virgin Australia is a separate company

I can get the SYD-LAX-SYD route to work by going to the Aus site, however can't seem to get LAX-SYD-LAX to work, by trying to go via the Virgin US site which still seems to only want to route me via LHR.

quote:Originally posted by vizbiz
I can get the SYD-LAX-SYD route to work by going to the Aus site, however can't seem to get LAX-SYD-LAX to work, by trying to go via the Virgin US site which still seems to only want to route me via LHR.


you need to be on the vaustralia website not virginatlantic

quote:Originally posted by Penny_L
quote:Originally posted by vizbiz
I can get the SYD-LAX-SYD route to work by going to the Aus site, however can't seem to get LAX-SYD-LAX to work, by trying to go via the Virgin US site which still seems to only want to route me via LHR.


you need to be on the vaustralia website not virginatlantic


As I said, I can now get a SYD-LAX-SYD price when using SYD as the origin (using the Aus site), but the Aus site doesn't offer LAX as an origin (not particularly surprising), however if I go to the US SITE, it DOESN'T offer me a direct LAX-SYD route/price but DOES offer me a routing via LHR...[?]

quote:Originally posted by vizbiz
quote:Originally posted by Penny_L
quote:Originally posted by vizbiz
I can get the SYD-LAX-SYD route to work by going to the Aus site, however can't seem to get LAX-SYD-LAX to work, by trying to go via the Virgin US site which still seems to only want to route me via LHR.


you need to be on the vaustralia website not virginatlantic


As I said, I can now get a SYD-LAX-SYD price when using SYD as the origin (using the Aus site), but the Aus site doesn't offer LAX as an origin (not particularly surprising), however if I go to the US SITE, it DOESN'T offer me a direct LAX-SYD route/price but DOES offer me a routing via LHR...[?]


I've just gone into the US site of http://www.vaustralia.com and I can book a direct LAX-SYD-LAX flight. It also offered me a routing to Sydney via Brisbane but nothing offered via LHR.

Ah, perhaps it's because I went to the US site from the UK site? I'll try again.

quote:Originally posted by vizbiz
Ah, perhaps it's because I went to the US site from the UK site? I'll try again.


There is no UK page for V Australia.

For their US site use - http://www.vaustralia.com
For their Aussie site use - http://www.vaustralia.com.au

quote:Originally posted by Tinkerbelle
quote:Originally posted by vizbiz
Ah, perhaps it's because I went to the US site from the UK site? I'll try again.


There is no UK page for V Australia.

For their US site use - http://www.vaustralia.com
For their Aussie site use - http://www.vaustralia.com.au


Sorry, I meant Aussie site![:I]