{"id":260976,"date":"2025-08-03T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/virgin-australia-mulling-own-widebody-order\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:30:11","slug":"virgin-australia-mulling-own-widebody-aircraft-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=260976","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Australia Mulling Own Widebody Aircraft Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255704\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/virgin-australia\/\"  >Virgin Australia<\/a><\/span> has spoken about introducing widebodies back into the Brisbane-based airline&#8217;s fleet. However, any decision is likely to be years away, according to the airline&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2040759\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/virgin-australia-dave-emerson-new-ceo-jayne-hrdlicka\/\" >Dave Emerson<\/a><\/span>. Currently, Virgin has partnered a deal with Doha-based Qatar Airways, a 25% shareholder in the Australian carrier, to which the Qatari airline is wet-leasing Boeing 777-300ER aircraft to operate direct flights from Brisbane, Perth, and Sydney to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"266080\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/doha-hamad-international-airport\/\"  >Doha Hamad International Airport<\/a><\/span> (DOH). Melbourne will also take off from December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO&#8217;s bold vision for the future, but when will it become a reality?<\/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":[396,476,273,937,1876],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-australia","category-virgin-australia","category-widebody"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260976","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=260976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260979,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260976\/revisions\/260979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}