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...It says the plans would create 4,500 jobs at the airport and contribute £1.5bn to the economy Shai Weiss, the chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, said in a speech last November that it would be difficult...
...Virgin Atlantic declined to comment. The Department for Transport declined to comment....
...The bosses of British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Heathrow posed for photoshoots on an empty runway, held joint press conferences and met ministers together as they pushed to loosen travel restrictions...
...UK carriers including British Airways, easyJet and Virgin Atlantic will hang on to lucrative take-off and landing slots without having to use them this summer after ministers extended waivers to controversial...
...The chief executives of British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Heathrow airport have called for a travel corridor with the US to be opened as soon as next month, in a push to restart the industry’s most lucrative...
...The airport’s move to increase the fees has sparked a furious dispute with airlines including BA, Virgin Atlantic and United Airlines, which are nursing large losses because much lower numbers of people...
...Does Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic deserve a bailout? You may have heard that Richard Branson is in need of a bailout for his Virgin Atlantic airline....
...Virgin Atlantic has also signalled its interest in Thomas Cook’s position at Gatwick, particularly its night slots....
...He was monitoring Brexit negotiations but said he was “not overly concerned” about their potential impact on the company, which owns a substantial stake in Virgin Atlantic Airways....
...Shares in troubled UK regional airline Flybe surged after it emerged the carrier was in talks with Virgin Atlantic about a potential takeover....
...Flybe was on the verge of bankruptcy in January as talks to save its sale to a consortium including Virgin Atlantic faltered....
...Connect Airways, which consists of Virgin Atlantic, Stobart Aviation and an investment company, had agreed last week to pay £2.2m for the group....
...(FT) JetBlue enters prepares to offer transatlantic flights US carrier JetBlue is to take on incumbents such as British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and United Airlines with its plans to fly between London...
...Its fight for the British Airways and Virgin Atlantic-dominated route will be like none it has seen before....
...Virgin Atlantic chief executive Craig Kreeger also welcomed the “fresh thinking” from hotel magnate Surinder Arora, whose rival runway proposal has been devised with help from US construction giant Bechtel...
...There were five fully loaded 747s taking off for London that night — two British Airways, two South African Airways and one Virgin Atlantic. This looked like a route that could do with bigger planes....
...Virgin is trying to attract users to Virgin Red by offering discounts and competitions from across the group’s companies, which include Virgin Trains and Virgin Atlantic, as well as from partner companies...
...Carriers from Air France-KLM, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic to low-cost airlines such as easyJet are planning airborne WiFi services as the technology matures and becomes more affordable....
...Baines Simmons’ clients include British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, KLM, SAS, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, the RAF, Airbus, the European Aviation Safety Agency, the Isle of Man Government, and the UK Military...
...Singapore Airlines held a 49 per cent stake in Virgin Atlantic, the company’s long-haul airline, from 1999 to 2013 before selling it to Delta Air Lines....
...Trailing a tail of fire, it was speeding over the Atlantic Ocean towards orbit....
...A spokesperson for Siim Kallas, EU transport commissioner, confirmed that the commission was also examining Delta Air Lines’ stake in Virgin Atlantic, Korean Air’s stake in Czech Airlines and HNCA of China...
...“I think we can be profitable [in 2014-15],” he says, adding that his target to restore profitability at the airline also applies Virgin Atlantic Limited, the holding company for the carrier and Virgin Holidays...
...Virgin Atlantic Limited – a group that includes the airline and Virgin Holidays, the tour operator – reported a pre-tax loss of £69.9m for the year to February 28, compared to £80.2m in 2011-12, but this...
...Sir Richard established Virgin Atlantic in 1984 to give British Airways a run for its money, and made a virtue of his airline being a free spirit in the aviation industry....
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