{"id":5049,"date":"2019-06-17T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2019-06-17T09:32:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:32:19","slug":"virgin-atlantic-orders-14-airbus-a330neos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=5049","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic Orders 14 Airbus A330neo&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PARIS, June 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Europe&#8217;s Airbus agreed on a deal to sell 14 A330neo wide-body passenger jets to Virgin Atlantic on Monday valued at $4.1 billion, the companies announced at the Paris Airshow on Monday, with an option for the airline to order six more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The British-based airline based placed firm orders for the upgraded A330 model, which it had been evaluating against the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The jets, which will be powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engines, will replace the airline&#8217;s A330ceos from 2021, Virgin Atlantic said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by Alistair Smout, editing by Louise Heavens)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/a330-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/a330-1.jpg 678w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/a330-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s Airbus agreed on a deal to sell 14 A330neo wide-body passenger jets to Virgin Atlantic on Monday valued at $4.1 billion, the companies announced at the Paris Airshow on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,4813,89,2203,1397,868,1103],"tags":[2171,42,739,539,47,420,2374,160,3945,1864,41,624,1024,99,335,207,589,276,412,995,100,1685,1288,2504,2505,3309,1691,1658,1018,512,1863],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-aviation-news","category-finance-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-2171","tag-42","tag-a330","tag-air","tag-airbus","tag-airline","tag-atlantic","tag-aviation","tag-based","tag-body","tag-boeing","tag-british","tag-ceo","tag-dreamliner","tag-engine","tag-france","tag-jet","tag-neo","tag-news","tag-order","tag-paris","tag-passenger","tag-reuters","tag-rolls","tag-royce","tag-show","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-trent","tag-virgin","tag-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","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=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}