{"id":187474,"date":"2025-03-18T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/virgin-atlantic-oldest-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:00:13","slug":"this-is-virgin-atlantics-oldest-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=187474","title":{"rendered":"This Is Virgin Atlantic&#8217;s Oldest Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/virgin-atlantic\/\" >Virgin Atlantic<\/a> has long been recognized for its distinctive branding, customer-centric service, and fleet of modern, stylish aircraft. Founded by Sir Richard Branson in 1984, the airline has built a reputation for offering passengers a unique and luxurious flying experience. Over the decades, it has introduced various aircraft models to its fleet, each playing a crucial role in expanding its global network. Despite these fleet changes, one aircraft remains \u2013 Virgin Atlantic\u2019s oldest aircraft, \u201cBeauty Queen\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 14.2-year-old aircraft has flown a total of 546 hours and counting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1603,396,13240,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a330-300","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-virgin-atlantic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187475,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187474\/revisions\/187475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}