Virgin Atlantic is to hire 1,500 staff over the next 18 months as part of its expansion plans.
Around 1,100 cabin crew positions need filling, 150 based at London Gatwick and Heathrow airports, including engineering positions, and 100 office-based headquarters roles, along with 150 flightdeck staff.
New routes to Cuba and the Bahamas began this month, routes to Dubai and Jamaica start next year and more services to destinations such as Singapore are planned.
Source: Flight International
China Airlines will retrofit its Airbus A350s with “all-new” cabin products, with the first upgraded widebody to enter service in 2027.
Russia’s Yakovlev and electronic systems specialist KRET have completed development of the autopilot and autothrust algorithms for the SJ-100 twinjet. The SJ-100 is the latest version of the Superjet 100, and features an increased proportion of systems produced domestically rather than by foreign suppliers. Preliminary testing on the ‘electronic bird’ ...
In-flight data provider Gogo completed its planned acquisition of once-competitor Satcom Direct on 4 December and named Satcom’s former president Chris Moore as CEO.
