Virgin Atlantic in for Worldwide Expansion

Virgin Atlantic Airways is continuing its expansion drive by increasing services to many of its key business and leisure routes in the next month.

Services to Mumbai will increase from three services per week to daily. In the same breath, the carrier will operate six weekly Shanghai flights followed by daily services to Cape Town over the peak winter season from January 29 to March 25.

Flights to Las Vegas have increased by 50 percent already this year with a fifth weekly service being added in July and a sixth weekly service launched in September.

“I am delighted that Virgin Atlantic is continuing to increase its frequency on significant business and leisure routes including Mumbai, Shanghai, Cape Town and Las Vegas,” said Sir Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Atlantic.

“The demand for popular long haul routes continues to rise and Virgin Atlantic is committed to sustain and build upon its growth with further route expansion next year to Dubai, Virgin Atlantic´s first Middle Eastern destination, and Jamaica, the eighth Caribbean island on our route map,” he noted.