Originally Posted by
owenc
Virgin Atlantic starting up today. 28 flights for the season, circa 25,000 seats.
I wonder, will they increase it for next year?
25,480 seats to be exact. It all depends on how successful the route is. This is the first year that VS are operating the route for the full summer season, so any increases next year will depend on the success of these new off-peak flights. I imagine that next year will see the x2 weekly peak period extended by a few weeks, but perhaps it could be extended throughout most of the summer season.
It should also be noted that from next year VS will be starting to replace their B744s with the A350-1000. The A350 has 100-150 fewer seats than the B744, meaning in order to keep current capacity on the route, the number of flights would need to increase from 28 to about 40. I suspect that the first A350s will be used exclusively from LGW, and that BFS won't see the A350 for a few more years, but soon enough BFS could be seeing up to x4 weekly VS flights to Orlando.