{"id":407960,"date":"2026-04-18T05:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/virgin-atlantic-teams-up-boeing-overhaul-787-9-cabins\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:01:19","slug":"goodbye-herringbone-virgin-atlantic-teams-up-with-boeing-to-overhaul-787-9-cabins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=407960","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Herringbone: Virgin Atlantic Teams Up With Boeing To Overhaul 787-9 Cabins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<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> 787-9 is the most numerous aircraft type in Virgin Atlantic&#8217;s all-widebody fleet, with present fleet data made available by ch-aviation showing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch-aviation.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >the UK-based long-haul carrier has 17 examples at its disposal<\/a>. This puts it ahead of the Airbus A330-300, A330-900, and A350-1000, of which the airline respectively has six, eight, and 12 units in its fleet. However, at 10.2 years on average, the 787s are among Virgin&#8217;s oldest jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier&#8217;s Upper Class seating on the 787 has seen its share of criticism due to the lack of privacy and window access. This is now set to change.<\/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":[396,476,398,995,701,423,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-787","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\/407960","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=407960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407961,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407960\/revisions\/407961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}