
Virgin Atlantic Launches Major New 14-Hour Nonstop Route In 2 Months [Map]
It'll be the first time the airline has flown to this country. See more details here!

It'll be the first time the airline has flown to this country. See more details here!

In this week's show, Gordon and Jay discuss two industry giants that are due to speak at the Skift Global Forum 2026 in New York between September 22-24. The conversation kicks off with Air Canada before turning to Virgin Atlantic. For the latest agenda and to book your ticket, visit live.skift.com Watch This Episode

Delta Air Lines will launch a new route between Texas’ Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) and Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) from March 27, 2027, as part of a transatlantic joint venture partnership between the airline, Virgin Atlantic and Air France-KLM. The new nonstop Austin-Paris flights will be Delta’s first transatlantic route from Austin and will make […]

Virgin Atlantic customers can now watch a new collection of dementia-friendly short films curated by Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF), as the airline continues its partnership with the festival for a third year. The new collection marks the third year of the partnership and will be available throughout the year on Virgin Atlantic’s in-flight entertainment platform, Vera. The films have been selected to offer a calm, engaging and accessible viewing experience for passenger’s people living with dementia, who may find full-length films, complex plots or fast-paced editing harder to follow during a flight. The collection can also support families, friends and carers travelling together by offering a shared viewing experience that feels gentle, manageable and inclusive.
Aviation News – An automated fire suppression system inside Virgin Atlantic’s engineering hangar at London Heathrow Airport unexpectedly activated during a routine night shift, submerging...

The company provides for meals for over a dozen international airlins, including Air France, Lufthansa, Japan Airlines, Qantas and Virgin Atlantic.

If you have met me or read anything I have written before, you probably know that I travel to unconventional places by unconventional routes, and I like to squeeze as much travel as possible out of my points. I measure redemptions against the money I would have actually spent, rather than an airline’s fake $11,000 retail fare. This is how I often end up flying an airline like Uzbekistan Airways in Seat 31B. They have a fantastic safety video, by the way.

The RAF faces stiff competition to keep its aircrew on the flight deck.
The new agreement will help passengers connect to nearly 30 destinations across the U.S. and Canada.
Virgin Atlantic to bring electric air taxis to the UK …
Joby Aviation and Virgin Atlantic have signed a definitive agreement at the Farnborough International Airshow, converting their 2025 partnership announcement into a binding, multi-year commercial framework that establishes Virgin Atlantic [...]

A tragic accident at London Heathrow Airport has left a Virgin Atlantic engineer's family mourning, as the airline investigates the circumstances.

Joby Aviation, Inc, a company developing electric air taxis for commercial passenger service, and Virgin Atlantic, a premium long-haul UK airline, today signed a definitive agreement at the Farnborough International Airshow, formalizing the partnership the companies first announced in 2025 to bring Joby’s air taxi service to the UK.
Joby Aviation, Inc., a company developing electric air taxis for commercial passenger service, and Virgin Atlantic, a premium long-haul UK airline, signed a definitive agreement at the Farnborough International Airshow, formalizing the partnership the companies first announced in 2025 to bring Joby’s air taxi service to the UK. The agreement converts the partnership announced in 2025 into
Aviation News – Joby Aviation and Virgin Atlantic Sign Definitive Agreement for UK Electric Air Taxi Operations Joby Aviation and Virgin Atlantic have signed a...

Seven of the 25 airports were served between 2024 and 2026. Find them all out here!

A reader shared a wild experience with me, whereby an airline agent insisted he wouldn’t need to include his middle name on a ticket, only for the airline to later claim that it was necessary. However, rather than fixing the problem, they just canceled the ticket, and are refusing to do anything about it… despite admitting fault!

Virgin Atlantic has campaigned to entice former RAF fast jet pilots to fly for them on long-haul transatlantic routes.

Virgin will temporarily be the joint-third-largest carrier from London Heathrow to the US. Find out more here!

Virgin Atlantic is scheduled to fly its A350-1000s to US destinations on both coasts from Manchester and London.