virgin have deferred the 6 a380 options for the past 10 years with four more years left to finally decide until 2018
but the new CEO has clearly hinted they do not fit in future plans and VS are unlikely to ever take them up
SRB has also seeked for some time to offload his remaining 51% of VAA - thus he would not be buying the leisure fleet as a standalone company -
BUT now he has just ordered 2 cruise liners for almost £2bn for the new Virgin Cruises it beggars belief what may now happen as you need aircraft to fly the pax in for the ships unless he is purely concentrating on the US markets to fill them - could be all change who knows now