{"id":21505,"date":"2012-07-05T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/virgin-australia-orders-australias-first-737-max-8-aircraft-3\/"},"modified":"2012-07-05T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T09:41:00","slug":"virgin-australia-orders-australias-first-737-max-8-aircraft-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/07\/virgin-australia-orders-australias-first-737-max-8-aircraft-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Australia orders Australia&#8217;s first 737 MAX 8 aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traveldaily.com.au\/\">Travel Daily<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-pAZnU5Yny4I\/T_VgX-f3psI\/AAAAAAAAWVs\/FWdUozZdnmU\/s1600\/B737_MAX.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-pAZnU5Yny4I\/T_VgX-f3psI\/AAAAAAAAWVs\/FWdUozZdnmU\/s400\/B737_MAX.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Virgin Australia has just announced an agreement with Boeing for the delivery of 23 737 MAX 8 aircraft &#8211; the first in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The new planes will join the Virgin Australia fleet between 2019 and 2021, with the agreement including a further four delivery options &#8220;ensuring flexibility to respond to market conditions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Virgin Australia has delayed the dellivery of some of its Boeing 737NG aircraft until after 2016, leaving 31 scheduled deliveries of 737-800s between 2013 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This gives the airline flexibility to develop the appropriate mix of narrow-body and wide-body aircraft,&#8221; the carrier said in a statement to the ASX.<\/p>\n<p>CEO John Borghetti also said that by the end of next year all of Virgin Australia&#8217;s Boeing 737-700s will have exited the fleet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Virgin Australia is committed to maintaining a young and flexible fleet of modern aircraft,&#8221; he said, with the average fleet age dropping from 4.9 to 4. years in the last 12 months alone.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Boeing 737 MAX should reduce fuel burn and CO2 emissions by 13% compared to today&#8217;s most fuel efficient single-aisle aircraft, with the new planes to incorporate the latest quiet engine technology, significantly reducing their noise footprint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Virgin Australia will continue to review its fleet strategy to ensure we align fit-for-purpose aircraft to markets and maintain maximum flexibility in capacity management,&#8221; Borghetti said.<\/p>\n<p>More information in today&#8217;s Travel Daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Travel Daily Virgin Australia has just announced an agreement with Boeing for the delivery of 23 737 MAX 8 aircraft &#8211; the first in Australia. The new planes will join the Virgin Australia fleet between 2019 and 2021, with the agreement including a further four delivery options &#8220;ensuring flexibility to respond to market conditions&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-daily","category-virgin-brands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505","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=21505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}