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Both Virgin Atlantic and British Airways have Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft grounded as they wait for maintenance on Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines. Each has cancelled hundreds of flights, mostly ...
Virgin Atlantic continues to struggle with reliability issues on Boeing 787 aircraft but expects to have its major troubles with Rolls-Royce engines resolved by year-end, the airline's CEO said in ...
Virgin Atlantic and British Airways have announced further suspension of routes
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Virgin Galactic CEO George T. Whitesides, in a news conference following the incident, said that "Space is hard and today was a tough day." [39] [40] Virgin founder Richard Branson said after the crash: "We do understand the risks involved and we are not going to push on blindly—to do so would be an insult to all those affected by this ...
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Virgin Atlantic also volunteered a Boeing 747 for a test of biofuels in February 2008. The aircraft flew without passengers from Heathrow to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, with 20% of the power for one engine provided by plant-based biofuel. Virgin Atlantic said that it expected to use algae-based biofuels in the future. [22]