Richard Branson has set off on a round-the-world-in-8-days tour to celebrate Virgin Atlantic's 25th birthday and to mark the launch of his newest airline V Australia.
Our very own Stefan the pilot and Air Transport Intelligence reporter and acting features editor for Airline Business Victoria Moores is joining Sir Richard on the world trip and will be twittering along the way.
Victoria is urging flightglobal.com users to "tweet" questions that she can put to the Virgin Group entrepreneur. During the trip so far, Victoria tweeted that she and Sir Richard have had a one-to-one interview in which she says Virgin is planning to offer around the world fares (east and west) which should be "sorted by April".
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- Follow Victoria Moores on Twitter.com and Stefanthepilot on Twitter.com as they keep us up to date with news, blogs and images from Virgin Atlantic's tour.
| Round the world in 8 days itinerary 21 February – 1 March 2009 |
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Saturday 21 February 21:30 Virgin Atlantic Flight VS200 departs Heathrow for Hong Kong/Sydney Sunday 22 February 17:40 Flight VS200 arrives at Hong Kong International Airport Monday 23rd February 07.10 Flight VS200 arrives at Sydney Airport Friday 27th February 15:00 V Australia Flight VA1 departs Sydney for Los Angeles Friday 27th February (lose a day due to timezone) 10:00 V Australia Flight VA1 lands at Los Angeles International Airport Saturday 28th February 18:00 Departure of Virgin Atlantic flight VS8 to Heathrow Sunday 1st March 12:30 Virgin Atlantic flight VS8 from Los Angeles lands at Heathrow |
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Source: FlightGlobal.com
