Virgin Fleet plans

[Lukas M]

Are the Tiger 73's being flown by Tiger or Virgin Pilots?

[Mick F]

Should be Tiger now, because apparently they have finally got the 737's approved on their AOC.

Mick

[Yusef D]

TT pilots now fly TT 737 ops.

VH-VOR remains on the VAI AOC flown by Aus and NZ VAI pilots

[Jarden S]

Unless someone new can bail them out it might be all over for VA.

[Rob R]

Originally Posted by Liam C

Tiger taking those clapped out 73s... Its not going to end well.

VA/TT will be dead in 2 years.

And you base this statement on what facts?

[Rob R]

Originally Posted by Jarden S

Unless someone new can bail them out it might be all over for VA.

Do you have any factual information to back this up?

[NathanJ]

Maybe all the armchair CEOs can get together and take the airline over and show us how it should be done lol.

[MarkR]

Originally Posted by Liam C

Tiger taking those clapped out 73s... Its not going to end well.

13 year old aircraft fully owned is clapped out???? I think the fleet commonality and lack of airframe costs will only help TT become more profitiable than it currently is. TT only became profitable in the first place under VA full ownership.

[Rob R]

Originally Posted by MarkR

13 year old aircraft fully owned is clapped out???? I think the fleet commonality and lack of airframe costs will only help TT become more profitiable than it currently is. TT only became profitable in the first place under VA full ownership.

Spot on and as the MAX numbers build up in VA, some of the newer (YF's and YI's) will eventually move to TT.

[Yusef D]

VA has said they want to keep some 738s to third 6 check, 18 years! That's getting a little mature for my liking, when the company fleet plan so far is built on deriving high utilisation from fresh reliable airframes. VA isn't QF. The latter has extensive in house heavy maint facilities and experience. This concerns me. Hopefully (for me) the airframes will age at TT.

It'll be a long time before TT get Yankee Foxtrot anything. There are still Victor series airframes to hand down (including BZG). Yankee Indias even less likely as they're optimised for longer international flights, and are a little heavier.