Virgin Atlantic Buys Eight A330s Directly From Airbus, Leases Six From ALC
17 June 2019 - 08:34PM
Dow Jones News
By Robert Wall
LE BOURGET, France--Virgin Atlantic Airways Chief Executive Shai
Weiss said Monday that the British carrier would introduce 14
Airbus SE (AIR.FR) A330-900s, with options for six more.
The deal is part of a wider Virgin Atlantic fleet renewal. The
new A330s would replace older versions of the plane now in service
with the carrier.
The planes are due for delivery from 2021.
Virgin Atlantic will buy eight of the planes from the European
plane maker and lease six more from Air Lease Corp. (AL).
The planes are powered by Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC (RR.LN) Trent
7000 engines that are akin to the Trent 1000 Virgin uses on Boeing
Co. (BA) 787 Dreamliners. Engine issues with the Trent 1000 have
idled some of the planes at Virgin and other carriers.
Chris Cholerton, head of civil aerospace for Rolls, said there
would be no disruption with the Trent 7000, in part based on
lessons learned from the Trent 1000.
Write to Robert Wall at robert.wall@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
June 17, 2019 06:19 ET (10:19 GMT)
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