Virgin Atlantic News
18-Mar-2010
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic is pleased to announce that it will be opening a new customer service operation in Swansea in September 2010. The move will create more than 200 jobs in the area over the next two years. The new customer service centre will run in conjunction with Virgin Atlantic’s existing operation in Crawley West Sussex. Julie Southern, Chief Commercial and Financial Officer, Virgin Atlantic commented;
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04-Mar-2010
UNITED KINGDOM :
LSG Sky Chefs announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Virgin Atlantic Airways for an extensive range of its products and services. The new contracts, which would commence 1 June 2010, cover UK in-flight catering as well as logistics, product supply and operational support services.
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12-Jan-2010
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic Airways, has bought six A330-300 long-range aircraft from Airbus, and is leasing a further four from AerCap. The contract was formally completed on December 30th, 2009, following an initial announcement earlier in June.
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24-Jun-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
GlobalSign Ltd announced (23-Jun-2009) Virgin Atlantic as the most recent major brand to migrate to its Extended Validation (EV) SSL technology to secure their public facing web site. EV SSL differs greatly from standard SSL making the browser address bar glow green, and providing visitors with visual reassurance that the site they are on is who they claim to be and that their personal information is secure.
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24-Jun-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
AerCap Holdings announced (23-Jun-2009) that it has signed letters of intent with Virgin Atlantic Airways for the purchase and leaseback of six Airbus A330-300s that Virgin Atlantic has on order with Airbus. In addition, AerCap will lease four Airbus A330-300 aircraft to Virgin Atlantic from its own A330 order.
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02-Jun-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic has launched a global partnership with the Regus Group the world's largest provider of fully furnished and equipped offices. The unique alliance provides substantial benefits to Virgin Atlantic's frequent flyer program members and holders of the Virgin Atlantic American Express(R) Card from Bank of America.
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12-May-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic today announced it will start flying between London Gatwick and Puerto Rico’s San Juan for the winter season 2009/2010. The weekly services, which will operate via Antigua, begin on 07-Nov-09.
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11-May-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic has launched a global partnership with Regus Group, the world's largest provider of flexible workspace solutions. The unique partnership provides substantial benefits to members of Virgin Atlantic's frequent flyer programme, Flying Club and holders of Virgin Atlantic American Express® Credit Card from MBNA.
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08-May-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic announced (07-May-09) it will start flying between London Gatwick and Puerto Rico’s San Juan for the winter season 2009/2010. The weekly services, which will operate via Antigua, begin on 07-Nov-09.
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06-May-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Jet Airways is pleased to announce a codeshare agreement with Virgin Atlantic with effect from 06-May-09.
Jet Airways se complace en anunciar que ha firmado un acuerdo de código compartido con Virgin Atlantic que entrará en vigor a partir del 6 de mayo de 2009.
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20-Apr-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic, one of the world's leading long-haul airlines, has asked the US Department of Transport to call for more documents from BA and American Airlines after it emerged that there were many highly relevant documents missing from their latest submission of evidence.
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14-Apr-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlanticis offering its customers a special birthday present every week until its 25th birthday on 22-Jun-09 This week it a special fare to Shanghai at GBP 349 for a return flight in Economy and GBP 649 for a return flight in Premium Economy (both prices include taxes and charges).
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24-Mar-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Swissport is very pleased to announce (23-Mar-09) the conclusion of an European Cargo Handling agreement with Virgin Atlantic, covering up to 40 stations, starting on 01-May-09.
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12-Mar-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic is offering its customers a special birthday present every week until its 25th birthday on 22-Jun-09.
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09-Mar-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic announced (06-Mar-09) it has appointed Steve Griffiths as its new Chief Operating Officer. Steve replaces Lyell Strambi, who returned to Australia at the end of last year. Steve Griffiths is currently the Director of Engineering for Virgin Atlantic and is responsible for all aspects of aircraft engineering and maintenance. His new role as COO will encompass Engineering, Operations, Airports, Cabin Crew, Product and Cargo.
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06-Mar-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic announced (05-Mar-09) it is offering its customers a special birthday present every week until its 25th birthday on 22-Jun-09.
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26-Feb-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic has launched (25-Feb-09) new round-the-world fares from London Heathrow. Passengers will be offered two ticket options for their round-the-world trip - ‘Virgin Global East’ and ‘Virgin Global West’. The ‘Virgin Global East’ option takes passengers from Heathrow to Hong Kong and then onto Sydney with Virgin Atlantic, from Sydney to Los Angeles with V Australia, returning from Los Angeles to London with Virgin Atlantic. The ‘Virgin Global West’ option takes passengers from London Heathrow to Los Angeles with Virgin Atlantic, then onto Sydney with V Australia, from Sydney to Hong Kong and then back to London with Virgin Atlantic.
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19-Feb-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic announced (18-Feb-09) two new senior international appointments in South Africa and Nigeria. Richard Myerscough starts this week as Country Manager for South Africa, based in Johannesburg. Richard will be responsible for the airline’s South African operation, which includes a daily service between Johannesburg and London Heathrow, and a seasonal service between London Heathrow and Cape Town from October through to April.
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30-Jan-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic is offering special fares to worldwide destinations including - USA, Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. Return fares in all classes including taxes and charges are available for sale until 17-Feb-09 for selected departure dates this year.
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12-Jan-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic announced (09-Jan-09) that it has launched an upper class seat sale to many of its destinations. The fares, which include price reductions of up to 40%, are available to cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC, Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Delhi, Mumbai, Shanghai, Tokyo, Dubai, Lagos and Nairobi as well as many Caribbean destinations.
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11-Dec-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic confirmed (10-Dec-08) that it is holding talks with Lufthansa regarding the future of bmi. These discussions may or may not lead to an agreement and a further announcement will be made in due course.
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10-Dec-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic announced (09-Dec-08) it would be expanding its services from Manchester to Barbados and Orlando. The airline is also adding more services from Gatwick to Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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02-Dec-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
EDS, an HP company, and Virgin Atlantic Airways announced (01-Dec-08) they have signed a new information technology (IT) services agreement that extends the companies' 25-year relationship.
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28-Nov-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic urged the European Commission to reject the planned virtual merger between BA and American Airlines. In an extensive document submitted to the European Commission competition authorities Virgin Atlantic says that BA and American Airlines, if allowed to combine, would use their market power to raise fares, adjust schedules to keep out competitors and cut off connecting feeder traffic to other carriers at Heathrow.
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29-Oct-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic launched a second service between London Heathrow and Hong Kong. The new flights, which will be daily from 04-Dec-08, will complement the airline’s existing daily programme to Hong Kong, which connects to Virgin Atlantic’s flights to Sydney.
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19-Sep-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
flyLAL will offer its passengers convenient connecting flights with Virgin Atlantic. This agreement will enable flyLAL passengers to buy tickets to connecting flights at especially favourable prices.
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01-Sep-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic welcomed the announcement by the European commission that it is to open an investigation into the proposed BA/American Airlines alliance with Iberia.
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01-Sep-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Following the news that Zoom Airlines has suspended operations, Virgin Atlantic is offering stranded Zoom passengers special one way fares on selected routes between London and the US.
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20-Aug-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic announced it is seeking bidders for its 49% stake in Virgin Nigeria and is reportedly likely to remove its branding from the carrier once a sale is completed.
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18-Aug-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic showed why nothing had changed since BA last failed to link-up with American Airlines and achieve their ambition to fix prices and schedules. BA/AA together would become a monster monopoly that would increase ticket prices and substantially reduce competition on the busiest air corridor in the world.
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18-Aug-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic warned that BA's third attempt to tie-up with American Airlines would create a monster monopoly that would push up ticket prices and substantially reduce competition on the busiest air corridor in the world.
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15-Aug-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic warned that BA's third attempt to tie-up with American Airlines would create a monster monopoly that would push up ticket prices and substantially reduce competition on the busiest air corridor in the world.
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17-Jun-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic Airways has appointed Michael Burke as the new General Manager India. Prior to this, Burke served as the Country Manager, Virgin Atlantic Airways in China. Burke has been with Virgin Atlantic for 13 years.
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16-Jun-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic is to increase its frequency between London Heathrow and Hong Kong from daily to twice a day. The extra services will lead to the creation of 100 new cabin crew roles.
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02-Jun-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic Airways announced it has appointed Dnata Travel as its off line General Sales Agent in the State of Kuwait.
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23-May-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic stated it is considering raising fuel surcharges on Upper Class fares (travelweekly.co.uk, 22-May-08).
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13-May-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic has called on EU and US negotiators to unshackle the aviation industry, ahead of Phase II open skies talks this week that focus on ownership issues (telegraph.co.uk, 11-May-08).
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12-May-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Swissport UK confirmed it is to provide a new Central Load Planning service to Virgin Atlantic worldwide, under a new contract between the two businesses. The service will be operated by Swissport from mid-May-08 for all of Virgin Atlantic’s fleet on all services globally. Although Swissport provides a full ground handling service for Virgin Atlantic at London Gatwick (since 2004) and Manchester Airports, the contract covers Virgin Atlantic services at other UK airports and for aircraft in other countries. This is the first time that Swissport has provided its Central Load Planning skills to an entire airline.
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09-May-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) confirmed that it has renewed its managed services contract with Virgin Atlantic. By entrusting the management of its IT infrastructure and applications management to Tata Consultancy Services, Virgin Atlantic is in a position to focus on core business activities and flex with the future challenges of the international airline industry.
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03-Apr-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
(XFN Asia) Virgin Atlantic is reportedly aiming to merge with BMI British Midlands and is pushing Deutsche Lufthansa AG, which holds a 29% in the carrier, to approve the deal. Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported, citing Virgin's external affairs and route development director Barry Humphreys.
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