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Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) has confirmed its new London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Tel Aviv (TLV/LLBG) direct flight will start on the 25th September 2019. The daily service will be operated by an Airbus A330-300 with a flight time of just under 5 hours. Speaking about the new route Shai Weiss, Virgin [read more]

Struggling regional airline Flybe (BE/BEE) is to be rescued by a consortium involving Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic and the Stobart Group. Flybe put itself up for sale two months as cash levels were putting the airline’s operations at serious risk and it realised that a take-over was the only [read more]

Leading UK airline Virgin Atlantic has confirmed it is in talks with Flybe about a potential takeover. The talks come after the airline put itself up for sale after concerns were raised about it’s susceptibility to cash flow demands from creditors and payment processors following multiple profit warnings. It is likely [read more]

Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) is making changes to its schedules from Manchester Airport as it switches to an all Boeing 747-400 operation for Winter 18/19. The airport previously had a mix of Airbus A330 and Boeing 747 aircraft but the latest changes to its Atlanta and New York JFK flights see [read more]

A Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) flight has filled the Cornish sky this Valentine’s day by painting a giant heart on flight trackers. An Airbus A330-200 (G-VMIK) was used for the flight, which left London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) at 11:27GMT this morning, used e callsign Virgin 850P for its cupid mission over [read more]

Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) has brought a stored Airbus A340 “Sleeping Beauty” back into its fleet to meet capacity whilst it awaits new aircraft to join the fleet. G-VNAP, An Airbus A340-600 known as “Sleeping Beauty” left the fleet in 2015 and was sent to Tarbes, France for storage where it [read more]

A Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330 suffered damage to its wing yesterday after it’s wing was clipped by an Egypt Air Boeing 777 at New York’s JFK airport. The Virgin Atlantic aircraft, Airbus A330-300 G-VRAY, was  departing New York’s John F Kennedy Airport (JFK/KJFK) operating flight VS4 to London Heathrow when [read more]

Airline giant Air France-KLM has bought a stake in Virgin Atlantic equal to around a third of the company. The 31% stake, worth £220m GBP, leaves founder Sir Richard Branson Virgin Group with a minority holding of just 20%. Delta Airlines now holds the majority share of 49%. In an open [read more]