{"id":15377,"date":"2025-11-02T22:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15377"},"modified":"2025-11-02T22:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:36:08","slug":"virgin-australia-groups-first-embraer-e190-e2-takes-off-in-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15377","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Australia Group&#8217;s first Embraer E190-E2 takes off in Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story and image from Virgin Australia Group<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>South Bank, Brisbane, Australia, November 2, 2025 &#8211; <\/strong>Virgin Australia Group has today introduced the first brand new aircraft to Western Australia\u2019s charter market this century with the entry into service of its first Embraer E190-E2 aircraft \u2018Coral Bay\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Coral Bay completed its inaugural commercial flight (VA9217) operated by Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (VARA) departing Perth at 7:15am and arriving in Boolgeeda at 9:05am (AWST).<\/p>\n<p>The E190-E2 brings enhanced passenger comfort to the airline\u2019s charter clients, greater operational efficiency, reliability and sustainability credentials, and is purpose-built for the unique demands of Western Australia\u2019s mining regions, including shorter runways and higher temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Onboard features include wider seats than the airline\u2019s outgoing F100s, ample overhead bin space, Wi-Fi connectivity and in-flight entertainment (via a guest\u2019s own personal device) [1], in-seat power and a dual Business and Economy class configuration in a first for Western Australia\u2019s charter market.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Virgin Australia&#039;s E2 Interior\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8w2VX-jxZr4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and image from Virgin Australia Group South Bank, Brisbane, Australia, November 2, 2025 &#8211; Virgin Australia Group has today introduced the first brand new aircraft to Western Australia\u2019s charter market this century with the entry into service of its first Embraer E190-E2 aircraft \u2018Coral Bay\u2019. Coral Bay completed its inaugural commercial flight (VA9217) operated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,9181,6875,10169,10617,868,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline-news","category-australia-news","category-embraer-news","category-news","category-pacifica","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377","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=15377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15381,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377\/revisions\/15381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}