Virgin Blue

Virgin Blue is an Australian low-cost airline and is the second largest airline of the country. The society was founded by the Virgin Group (conducted by Richard Branson) and is now in the hands of Toll Holdings. The home of Virgin Blue is Brisbane Airport (Queensland). In 2011 the name was changed to Virgin Australia. [1]



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == Virgin Blue was founded on August 3, 2000. At that time the society with two aircraft that flew seven times a day between Brisbane and Sydney. Nowadays the company flies to all major cities and popular holiday destinations in Australia .
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The success of Virgin Blue is primarily the result of the loss of Ansett Australia in september 2001. This society left a big hole behind that was filled by Virgin Blue; the company grew to be the second airline of the country. Virgin Blue offers the same product as Ryanair in Europe and Southwest Airlines in the us do. Thus, one can only get a meal at an additional cost and one gets no paper tickets. Also cost effective is the use of a single type of aircraft: the Boeing 737.

In september 2003, Virgin Blue, Pacific Blue, her new company carry out flights between Australia and New Zealand. Pacific Blue is so the only low-cost airline on the routes between the two countries and goes into battle with the Australian Qantas and Air New Zealand from New Zealand. Qantas responded In 2004 with the creation of the low-cost airline Jetstar which also flights to Christchurch New Zealand run went. In 2006, Virgin Blue announced to want to fly to Los Angeles to destinations in the u.s. and in Japan. Currently Virgin Blue in consultation with aircraft manufacturer Boeing on the purchase of seven Boeing 777-300ER aircraft for these routes.

After a large share issue in november 2013 Air New Zealand is the largest shareholder with a stake of 23%, Singapore Airlines and Etihad Airways both have 20% of the shares and 10% is owned by Richard Branson'sVirgin Group. [2] ==Fleet[ Edit] == The Virgin Blue revamped fleet consists of the following aircraft: (March 2011) <p lang="en" len="150" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also, the company currently 62 airplanes on order of the type Boeing 737-800 (58), Airbus A330-200 (3) and Embraer E-190 (1) ==Codes<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Virgin Blue has a codeshare agreement with Virgin Atlantic.
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 * ICAO: VOZ