Most Virgin flights to Brisbane currently use the Fokker 100 aircraft, which is not equipped to offer business class. The change in aircraft increases capacity from 246,000 annually to 420,000.

I’d booked this flight as a plain old Adria Airways regional flight on a CRJ900, and it was only on the day of the flight that Adria changed this for a chartered Fokker 100. The full itinerary took me ...