Virgin Blue's money plane takes off

[Gerald A]

At least part of the whispering campaign against Virgin Blue at the Euromoney Seminar’s Australasia Airfinance Conference in Sydney has fallen over.
Contrary to the rumors, finance for the first of its seven Boeing 777-300ERs for its V Australia long haul carrier has come through in an operating lease with the world’s major jet lessor ILFC, but not until after it had been built, painted and parked in Seattle with some of the seats installed.

And there are finance options in place for the following two nearly-ready 777s, which will become a triple 7 unit trying to break the grip Qantas has on the US routes from the middle of December.

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Scott

Maybe thats why the plastic is or was, around the jet engines on VH-VGA, all the seats not installed, plus a delivery date some time in November.