I've asked this before without reply. Where will Virgin send the 10 A330's they have on order? Surely, there must be recruitment for that fleet!
TBE
We don't know yet where they're going to go. The company has. as yet, made no announcement whether the aircraft will be additional to the current fleets or will replace current aircraft, or some mix of the two. Given that the aircraft is the A330-300 with no extra tanks and a practical endurance of around 8.5 hours, it shouldn't be too difficult to work out which of the current destinations it
could serve. There are rumours of new destinations, but no more than that.
Desk-pilot I very much doubt that the Flybe rumour has any substance. There is no corresponding rumour within Virgin... I can only imagine that it was a putative attempt at placing displaced First Officers which fell at any one of a number of obvious hurdles. The idea that it would be a reciprocal arrangement has no credibility.