Virgin Returns To Half Year Profit
In an item in the "Australian" about Virgin returning to a half year profit and a mooted IPO these two paragraphs caught my eye :
"......Australia’s biggest airline also told staff it had appointed two new board members ahead of its planned IPO later this year......" But in the very next paragraph the reporter corrects herself......The nation’s second biggest airline......"
And
"......Its fleet has grown from 58 aircraft after administration to 92, and from April new Boeing 787-8s will start to arrive. The eight narrow body jets will bring down the average fleet age from 11.2 years, and provide greater network flexibility due to their longer range.
92 aircraft ? I thought Virgin Australia had about 80 B737s. Did the reporter include Virgin Australia Regional Airlines aircraft ? And new B787-8s are new to me. Does the reporter mean B737-8MAXs ?
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