{"id":150,"date":"2016-01-14T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2016-02-15T19:11:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T01:11:21","slug":"will-virgin-atlantic-swap-a380s-for-a350s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Will Virgin Atlantic swap A380&#8217;s for A350&#8217;s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumor has it that Virgin Atlantic is considering\u00a0a deal for up to 12 Airbus A350-1000 jets, as the airline looks to renew its wide body aircraft\u00a0fleet.\u00a0The airline has stated that\u00a0it is considering both the Airbus A350 and Boeing 777 to replace its older\u00a04\u00a0engine aircraft fleet. Since Virgin Atlantic has repeatedly deferred the delivery\u00a0of the 6 A380 super jumbo aircraft it had\u00a0originally\u00a0ordered on April of 2001, could this order be &#8220;swapped out&#8221; for the A350-1000 jets? Rumor has it that 49% owner Delta is not interested in the A380 airplane and its economics, so\u00a0this may provide Airbus with a way to\u00a0try and spin the news in a more positive light.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-152\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/VA-Airbus-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"VA Airbus\" width=\"672\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/VA-Airbus-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/VA-Airbus-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/VA-Airbus.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-view-uid=\"1|0_4_1_8\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumor has it that Virgin Atlantic is considering\u00a0a deal for up to 12 Airbus A350-1000 jets, as the airline looks to renew its wide body aircraft\u00a0fleet.\u00a0The airline has stated that\u00a0it is considering both the Airbus A350 and Boeing 777 to replace its older\u00a04\u00a0engine aircraft fleet. Since Virgin Atlantic has repeatedly deferred the delivery\u00a0of the 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}