Here is an interesting note on how many B737s Virgin Australia will actually be flying.
As to the number of Boeing 737s that'll be in the hangars, "how many we are taking through and how many we will need in the future is still a work in progress," Scurrah said.
However, he qualified that "at the end of this pandemic, once we get back to pre-Covid FY19 levels, we see a market that could sustain us having 60-80 Boeing 737s in our fleet," implying that the reboot fleet will be substantially lower.
Virgin owns some 40 Boeing 737s, all of which will likely remain on deck, and this will be supplemented by some leased aircraft – leaving the door open to cherry-picking the best deals from among the current roster of leasing companies who hold the keys to another 40 Boeing 737s.
"We're renegotiating aircraft lease rates with our lessors," Scurrah revealed, "and those lease rates will be different to what we had previously." He added that at least from an operational perspective, the airline's financial problems "were about onerous contracts and a complicated fleet."
So Virgin Australia will have somewhere north of the 40 they own and obviously would be planning for more otherwise why would they be having discussions with leasing companies?
This is from the ET story at
https://www.executivetraveller.com/n...s-some-lounges