Virgin rolls out more flights
Virgin Atlantic is relaunching flights to five more cities this month, having already resumed services to New York JFK, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Barbados and Miami.
It has resumed flying between Heathrow and Delhi today and throughout September it will add services to Tel Aviv, Atlanta, Mumbai and Lagos.
Additional routes will be added throughout the rest of this year and into 2021 in line with customer demand, it said.
The airline is seeking court approval on Wednesday for a £1.2 billion rescue deal, which was approved by its creditors last week.
Chief Commercial Officer Juha Jarvinen said: "We’re continually reviewing our network and as countries begin to open up their borders, we’re introducing more and more flying.
"We’re incredibly excited to resume services to Delhi, Tel Aviv, Atlanta, Mumbai and Lagos this September as well as increasing the frequency to other destinations. We’re now offering daily flights to New York JFK and Los Angeles and twice weekly flights to Shanghai.
"We’ll also be restarting flights to further destinations from October onwards, including new services to Pakistan from both London Heathrow and Manchester."
Virgin’s partner, Delta Air Lines, also plans to increase flying from this month. This includes adding a service between London Heathrow and Boston five times a week, complementing existing services from Heathrow to both Atlanta and New York-JFK.
Improvements to onboard catering
Virgin has expanded its food and beverages service to offer:
- A hot food service in all cabins with Economy and Premium Economy customers offered a food box and Upper Class customers provided with a tray service;
- An expanded alcohol service to include champagne, miniature liquors and mixers as well as beer and wine in Upper Class and a choice of beer, wine and miniature liquors and mixers in Economy and Premium.
- A second meal service, including a hot drink
- Snacks in Upper Class and Premium.
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