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Originally Posted by The Big Easy
Another question for scroggs.
VS have just announced another daily Hong Kong service, will this require extra aircraft and crews?
TBE.
The second Hong Kong service will apparently use aircraft and crews redeployed from other services. It starts operating with the winter schedule in October, and will go daily from December; at that point a couple of summer-only services cease and I suspect that there may be some rationalisation of weaker routes to free up the required A346s. There will be no recruiting needed, sadly!
Sick I would imagine that there is a lot of pessimism around in just about any airline right now, and Virgin is not immune from that. No-one knows how the world's economy is going to pan out over the next year or two, but it's certain that the vast majority of airlines will survive the crisis, albeit a bit bruised. Virgin Atlantic is part of a group with a $20 billion turnover, deep pockets and long-term plans. It also belongs (49%) to arguably the world's most profitable and secure airline - SQ. While things will undoubtedly get tougher, Virgin is better placed to ride the storm than many. We all hope that capacity (and personnel) reductions won't be needed; the redeployment of aircraft to HKG from other routes, as yet unspecified, may be a clue as to how Virgin intend to tackle things.