Virgin Atlantic Cargo partners with WTA Aviation and Swissport for new daily Tel Aviv services
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has awarded contracts to WTA Aviation and Swissport in Israel to support the launch and growth of the airline’s new daily...
Virgin Atlantic’s first Airbus A350 has rolled out of the paint shop
Virgin Atlantic's very first Airbus A350 (G-VPOP) just rolled out of the paint shop at the Airbus factory in Toulouse. Dave Gunner, co-editor of...
Virgin Atlantic orders 14 Airbus A330-900neo aircraft (plus six options)
Virgin Atlantic today announced a spectacular order at the International Paris Air Show, the U.K. based airline will order 14 Airbus A330-900neo's plus six...
Connect Airways announces the appointment of Mark Anderson (VP Customer at Virgin Atlantic) as CEO
The Board of Connect Airways Limited, the company jointly owned by Virgin Atlantic Limited, Stobart Group and funds managed by Cyrus Capital Partners, announces...
Virgin Atlantic relaunches flights to Mumbai
VIRGIN ATLANTIC DOUBLES INDIA SERVICES WITH NEW ROUTE TO MUMBAI Virgin Atlantic is relaunching flights between London Heathrow and Mumbai, a thriving cargo route for...
British Airways stops offering the Financial Times to passengers
British Airways (BA) has stopped offering the Financial Times (FT) to passengers in response to negative stories about it in the paper, a source...
Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic to serve London Gatwick from Boston and New York JFK in 2020
Transatlantic partners Delta and Virgin offer up to 18 flights daily to the U.K. from Boston and New York Delta also to deploy...
More international flying comes to Boston, thanks to Delta and partners
The airline and its partners will offer up to 149 daily departures to more than 50 destinations from Boston-Logan in 2019, an increase of...
Five of UK’s biggest airlines are facing a legal action which claims that crew is regularly exposed to toxic fumes
Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union representing cabin crew, called on the airline industry to take urgent action to tackle toxic cabin air as...
Virgin Atlantic Cargo set to soar in South America (São Paulo, Brazil) for the first time
Virgin Atlantic Cargo is delighted to announce it will be launching flights between London Heathrow and São Paulo, Brazil in 2020. Flying daily between London...
Air France, KLM and Virgin Atlantic launch extensive codeshare partnership
KLM and Air France customers have access to 24 new North America routes operated by Virgin Atlantic/Delta departing the UK including connections via...
European Commission approves acquisition of joint control over Virgin Atlantic by Air-France-KLM, Delta and Virgin Group
The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of joint control over Virgin Atlantic by Air France-KLM, Delta and...
Virgin Atlantic opens new Tel Aviv route and welcomes its cargo potential
Virgin Atlantic’s new daily flights between London Heathrow and Tel Aviv will provide more import and export opportunities for customers in the UK, US...
Delta Cargo and Virgin Atlantic Cargo celebrate five years of partnership
Airlines to offer customers more choice and greater automation on the trans-Atlantic Moving to a new state-of-the-art warehouse at London Heathrow later this year ...
Virgin Atlantic Cargo & Delta Cargo to drive long-term growth with move to new purpose-built facility at Heathrow
New warehouse doubles the airlines’ existing cargo footprint Investment in technology and automation will provide customers with higher levels of service and faster handling times Virgin Atlantic...
Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Group take over ailing Flybe
Flybe is being bought for £2.2m by a consortium known as Connect Airways including Virgin Atlantic (30%), Stobart Group (30%) and Cyrus Capital Partners...
Virgin Atlantic to continue talks with Flybe over potential takeover
Virgin Atlantic continues to review its options in respect of Flybe, including potentially making an offer for Flybe. "Discussions with Flybe and its management are...
Loss of separation between Malaysia Airlines Airbus A350 and a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9 above London
On 23 October, two aircraft with destination London Heathrow have gotten closer together than they should have done: a Malaysia Airlines Airbus A350 (9M-MAG) from Kuala...
easyJet extends ‘Worldwide by easyJet’ to new connections airline partner Virgin Atlantic
easyJet has today (2 October) announced that it has signed up Virgin Atlantic as a new airline partner to its unique connections service ‘Worldwide...
Virgin Atlantic Cargo builds on record 2017 with 3% volume growth in first half of 2018
Growth in life science, express, valuable and automotive shipments all contributed to a 3% year-on-year growth in tonnage for Virgin Atlantic Cargo in the...