{"id":97167590,"date":"2010-07-22T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/virgin-america-orders-airbus-planes-to-double-fleet\/"},"modified":"2010-07-22T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T13:24:00","slug":"virgin-america-orders-airbus-planes-to-double-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/virgin-america-orders-airbus-planes-to-double-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin America Orders Airbus Planes to Double Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 196px; height: 152px\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2010\/7\/virginamericaplane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"152\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVirgin America Inc. agreed to purchase 40 Airbus SAS A320 jets, a $3.26 billion buy that will more than double its fleet, as the low-carrier adds destinations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe new planes will arrive from 2013 through 2016 with opportunities for 20 more aircraft. Virgin America announced the order on Thursday at the Farnborough Air Show near London.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe addition will support an expansion push that Chief Executive Officer David Cush said includes serving around three new cities per year through 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&ldquo;My expectation is that within the next 30 days we&rsquo;ll announce another route that we&rsquo;ll start flying before the end of the year, and that&rsquo;ll definitely be a major business route,&rdquo; Cush said Thursday in an interview at the show.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVirgin America currently has 28 planes, all from Toulouse, France-based Airbus. The carrier wants Airbus to add new engines to its A320 family of aircraft, and would be &ldquo;first in line&rdquo; to buy such jets, Cush said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-07-22\/virgin-america-orders-40-airbus-a320s-as-service-added-from-california-hub.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Virgin America Inc. agreed to purchase 40 Airbus SAS A320 jets, a $3.26 billion buy that will more than double its fleet, as the low-carrier adds destinations. &nbsp; The new planes will arrive from 2013 through 2016 with opportunities for 20 more aircraft. Virgin America announced the order on Thursday at the Farnborough Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97167590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}