{"id":1661,"date":"2011-01-09T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2011-01-09T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T23:25:00","slug":"virgin-to-add-turbo-prop-fleet-under-alliance-with-skywest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/01\/virgin-to-add-turbo-prop-fleet-under-alliance-with-skywest\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin to add turbo prop fleet under alliance with Skywest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Virgin Blue Group and Western Australia&#8217;s Skywest Airlines have just<br \/>announced signing a new strategic alliance, which will see Skywest operate<br \/>a fleet of up to 18 new DJ branded turbo prop aircraft, leased from Avation<br \/>PLC.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-year agreement will see the first DJ turbo prop come into service<br \/>mid this year (and another 3 by the end of 2011) and operate on new and<br \/>existing routes around the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The combined strength of our networks, along with the additional capacity<br \/>we will deliver with new aircraft, will provide travellers with more<br \/>frequent flights, better schedules and competitive fares,&#8221; said DJ ceo and<br \/>managing director, John Borghetti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virgin Blue Group and Western Australia&#8217;s Skywest Airlines have justannounced signing a new strategic alliance, which will see Skywest operatea fleet of up to 18 new DJ branded turbo prop aircraft, leased from AvationPLC. The 10-year agreement will see the first DJ turbo prop come into servicemid this year (and another 3 by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[310],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-virgin-brands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}