{"id":275785,"date":"2025-08-31T10:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/virgin-australia-higher-costs-maintain-old-planes-boeing-delivery-delays\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T10:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:02:52","slug":"virgin-australia-sees-higher-costs-to-maintain-older-aircraft-as-boeing-delivery-delays-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=275785","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Australia Sees Higher Costs To Maintain Older Aircraft As Boeing Delivery Delays Persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brisbane-based <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 noted that the airline&#8217;s maintenance costs remain high, as the delays of major aircraft orders expected from American plane maker <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span>. This has seen the Australian airline extend leases and maintain older aircraft operating in the airline&#8217;s fleet, as delays continue to hamper the airline&#8217;s bottom line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher operating costs for Virgin Australia, as its Boeing delivery delays continue.<\/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":[396,6318,476,273,398,17953,937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-order","category-airlines","category-australia","category-boeing","category-image","category-virgin-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275785","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=275785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275786,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275785\/revisions\/275786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}