This is a heads up, to celebrate Virgin's 9th Birthday, and their first flight, tonight at 9pm they will offer 1000 seats at $9 ONLY VIA TWITTER
SYDNEY-CANBERRA $9
SYDNEY-PORT MAQ $9
BRISBANE-NEWCASTLE $9
BRISBANE-ROCKHAMPTON $9
Book at 9pm via: www.twitter.com/virginblue
TRAVEL: 2nd Feb- 27th Feb 2010
Will they have Sydney to Gold Coast and vise-versa in December for this price?
Wow…
hope I can get a x'mas deal
http://www.virginblue.com.au/AboutUs/Media/NewsandPressRelea…
TWITTER “CHEEP CHEEP” SEATS!
VIRGIN BLUE CELEBRATES 9th BIRTHDAY WITH TWITTER SALE
$9 TWITTER FARES*
Monday 31 August 2009: Virgin Blue Airlines is celebrating turning nine years old with $9 seats on sale across a range of routes in the first of what the airline says will be regular ‘Twitter’ sales.
The $9 ‘Tweet seats’, priced deliberately at less than a bottle of birthday champagne, will only be available on the Virgin Blue Twitter website – www.twitter.com/virginblue.
From 9pm tonight until sold out, Virgin Blue will offer 1000 $9.00* one-way fares for Virgin Blue Twitter fans to snap up across a range of destinations including Canberra-Sydney, Port Macquarie-Sydney, Brisbane-Newcastle and Rockhampton-Brisbane. The fares are for travel from 2 February 2010 to 27 February 2010.
The sale is the first of a series of regular “tweet seats” sales that will be offered across the Virgin Blue domestic route network over coming months.
Travellers will be able to go to the Twitter site and click on a link and be taken directly to a booking page with the special fares which, for this sale, are up to 91% lower than the every day lead in fare on the same route.
The airline Group will also add Pacific Blue flights to its future tweet seats sale fares, offering super deals from Australia to some of the most popular destinations in the Pacific including New Zealand, Fiji, Vanuatu and Samoa.
Virgin Blue Group Chief Executive Officer, Brett Godfrey, said, “This is a bit of fun and also a bit of an experiment trialling distribution through one of the latest forms of social media.
“Our marketing team has been closely watching worldwide consumer trends in markets where travellers are already social media savvy and we see Australians fast developing a following for Twitter as a source of the latest information regarding a wide range of products and services including airline news.
“With the current trend in real time news and information we expect the fares will be snapped up quickly,” Brett Godfrey finished.
To follow Virgin Blue on Twitter and take advantage of the “tweet seats”, check out www.twitter.com/virginblue.
Thanks!
Seems no go for me now…
Port Maquarie is great place for $9!. You could do a daytrip there seeing they have 2 flights a day, all for $18
Would that be 9pm Brisbane time??
Yes. Its still 9pm in Melb and Sydney when its 9pm in Brisbane, 8.30pm in Adelaide and god knows what in Perth
lol
7pm :P
so, do we have to wait for the special url that will be tweeted at 9pm?
yes.
Do we have to register with Twitter to take advantage of these offers?
why are you NOT on twitter?
there's plenty of reasons to not have twitter.
pretty sure the tweets are public so shouldnt need to register, but might be good to just in case.
kiwipride…why are you on twitter? :D
agreed with kiwipride
Why are you NOT on twitter?!?!
Because its generally very boring?
ummm… to receive great deals from airlines? :-(), Stix
:D
SYDNEY-CANBERRA $9
SYDNEY-PORT MAQ $9
BRISBANE-NEWCASTLE $9
BRISBANE-ROCKHAMPTON $9
Only Sydney & Brisbane? No VIC/SA???
ready?
By the way, what is there to do at Rocky?
I am blocked from using Twitter.
What is the actual Virgin Blue HTTP:// address for this?
Dont Know Yet
No problem.
Please publish non-Twitter HTTP:// address when any of you find out.
Thanks in advance…
Nothing yet?
Nah, I expected them to release them at 9 on the dot as well
lol…..me 2
Its 9:05 but nothing there's yet
VB … Always behind !
This sucks…
show me the tweet seats ???????????
They need to learn Time Management
OK, we're just changing outfits… there's been a wardrobe malfunction! We'll be right with you…
From Virgin Blue Twitter
Wardrobe malfunction … these people r idiots !
They should have been prepared
waiting …..
Are you syre ?????
where?
lol! this is so funny. late flights, late deals!
exactly…i wonder how they run the whole company
VirginBlue: OK, we're just changing outfits… there's been a wardrobe malfunction! We'll be right with you…
so how does this twitter thing work.
Ive signed up and am on the twitter virgin page, pressing refresh every 30 seconds.
Am i supposed to tweet (dont know how to) or do anything?
r u following them? if so, they will tweet the url and you will see it?
They are Late/………
very late
WTH!!!
Unfortunately the Twitter Sale has ended.
"Unfortunately the Twitter Sale has ended." lol!
OMG! what's going on?
so funny. i don't wont to go to Newcastle or Rocky!!! dam……
Twitter Sale 1000 seats at $9
To secure your Twitter Deal, simply search using the form below and then select your preferred flights.
Sydney to Port Macquarie $9^ Newcastle to Brisbane $9^
Brisbane to Rockhampton $9^ Canberra to Sydney $9^
Sad no SA/VIC :(
VirginBlue: For Travel 02nd to 27th February 2010 - BNE/ROK, BNE/NTL, CBR/SYD, SYD/PQQ. We will tweet when sold out…
The Syd to Port ones are $9 for Mon-Thurs and Sat. $54 for Fridays and Sundays!
Didn't realise there are so many people in Ozbargain from SYD/BNE - Gee this post is busy.. Melbourne guys are just relaxing - no stress :)
Just booked 4 Syd-Port MCQ.
Pay by credit card so they charged me a credit card fee of $28.00
LOL
Why would anyone want to fly to Rocky to BNE anyway?? Should have been the other way
Credit card fee of $21!
Virgin Blue = FAIL.COM !
I noticed that there is a special on connection flights too
Newcastle to Melb then connecting to Brisbane for $39. Can u buy that and just fly from melb to Brisbane and miss the first flight?
Might be a little backdoor way
If they let you on board :)
Got CBR to SYD to PrtMQ and Return all up AUD122.00 Could not be happier! I just hope I remember to take my flights:))
just got 3 adult tickets, BNE to ROC return, including CC fee for $91, amazing
credit card fee $14!! total $25 per person for the $9 deal. not too bad. although it's not exactly $9. don't expect too much
working for me - $18 return syd- port mac, plus $7pp credit card. $50 per couple. good deal but not keen to go port mac or canberra so giving it a miss. good deal though.
By the way, how do you avoid credit card surcharge for Virgin. Jetstar at least lets you do direct deposit I still think if booking more than 2 wks before travel.
These guys should be able to set up some sort of Bpay facility. It really couldnt be very hard. And asking $3.50 credit card fee on a $9 ticket is a bit much - over 33%
Another 1h10m to go…
Sale ends 11:00 PM 31 August 2009 or when seats are sold out
Had gotten 20 tickets on the days i wanted to go to Port Maq and since I didnt want to pay 20 sets of credit card surcharges, chose the online transfer POI method.
Seems like the Virgin system isnt compatible with Google Chrome and couldnt go back to pay by CC.
Tried to get the same number of tickets again but not available anymore.
Well thats life for you.
$9 or $12.50. It's cheap and a loss leader if ever there was one!
Could have booked Sydney to Canberra return $9 each leg. Most flights still available. Didn't need a twitter a/c.
Didn't book, though.
I don't want to go to Canberra.
And I don't live in Sydney :P
I just booked
SYDNEY-CANBERRA $9
SYDNEY-PORT MAQ $9
me and my friend will be going to Newcastle for 3 nights just after my BDay ^_^
![Virgin Blue 1000 $9 FARES 9pm Tonight [Twitter Only]](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/58/16158.jpg?h=dd1bf45a)
Sweet, thanks Skystar…always appreciate having an insider here on OzB. :D