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Virgin Australia Holdings Pty Limited is the holding company that owns and operates Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines. It previously operated Pacific Blue Airlines , Tigerair Australia and joint-venture airline Polynesian Blue which were absorbed into Virgin Australia in December 2011.
The airline launched flights between Sydney and Los Angeles in 2009, followed by flights from Melbourne and Brisbane after obtaining permission to operate an unlimited number of flights between Australia and the U.S. by the Australian International Air Services Commission. [30]
Richard Charles Nicholas Branson was born on 18 July 1950 [9] [10] in Blackheath, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, the son of Edward James Branson (1918–2011), a barrister, and his wife Evette Huntley Branson (née Flindt; 1924–2021), a former ballet dancer and air hostess.
Virgin Money was later bought by Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank Group (CYBG) in 2018 for £1.7 billion ($2.68 billion). CYBG paid Virgin and Branson a royalty fee to continue using the brand’s name.
Owns and operates a fleet of Fokker aircraft including Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 jet aircraft. [citation needed] Operates Virgin Australia branded flights, as well as closed charter and FIFO for mining operations around Australia. [6] They have also wet-leased several Embraer 190s to Qantas since June 2021. [7] ASL Airlines Australia: PH: SFZ ...
This is a list of airline holding companies, that either own more than one airline or are the parent company of a single airline. A company or firm in which the holding company owns a significant portion of voting shares, usually 20–50% or a "minority of share ownership", is known as an associate company.
Virgin Australia Regional was formed in 1963 as Carnarvon Air Taxis flying charter flights with small general aviation aircraft out of Carnarvon, Western Australia. In 1979 it changed its name to Skywest Aviation and moved to Perth 's Jandakot Airport .
Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd, trading as Jetstar, is an Australian low-cost airline headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria. [3] [4] It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qantas, created in response to the threat posed by the airline Virgin Blue (now known as Virgin Australia).