{"id":220004,"date":"2025-05-19T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/largest-aircraft-virgin-atlantics-13-airbus-a350-1000-routes\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:30:15","slug":"largest-aircraft-virgin-atlantics-13-airbus-a350-1000-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=220004","title":{"rendered":"Largest Aircraft: Virgin Atlantic&#8217;s 13 Airbus A350-1000 Routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Atlantic&#8217;s fleet consists of <strong>44 aircraft<\/strong>: 17 Boeing 787-9s, 12         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739539\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/a350-1000\/\"  >Airbus A350-1000s,<\/a><\/span>eight A330-900s, and seven A330-300s. Its average fleet age is a reasonably low 7.2 years, helped by its A330-900s (1.6 years) and A350s (4.4 years). Removing the rest of its A330-300s by 2028 will help. Doing so will improve its fleet&#8217;s fuel consumption, maintenance requirements, and hard product, offset by higher ownership costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has 12 A350s, accounting for 27% of its fleet.<\/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":[430,566,396,476,3507,407,553,1022,2466,406,15477,701,423,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a350","category-airbus-a350-1000","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-edinburgh-airport","category-flights","category-india","category-london-heathrow-airport","category-manchester-airport","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-kingdom","category-united-states","category-virgin-atlantic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220004","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=220004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220029,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220004\/revisions\/220029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}