Virgin Atlantic is set to increase its cargo-only flying this January as the airline continues to adapt and leverage on its cargo operations, with recovery in passenger traffic yet again curtailed by the UK’s latest lockdown as well as travel restrictions in other destinations. Virgin Atlantic Cargo has increased its capacity on key routes from 21 to 33 cargo-only rotations per week this month – an increase of 60 percent. This includes daily flights between London and Brussels … [Read more...] about Virgin Atlantic adds dedicated cargo flights to start the year
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Virgin Atlantic enhances pharma cargo service
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has introduced its new Pharma Secure service for all urgent, valuable and vulnerable pharmaceutical and life sciences shipments. The new pharma service will include a 24/7 support team, automatic live status updates, proactive service recovery and periodical integrity checks, temperature-controlled facilities and a dedicated booking team. Also read: Virgin Atlantic to expand cargo-only services in Italy “This new service takes our already well-established … [Read more...] about Virgin Atlantic enhances pharma cargo service
Virgin Atlantic Cargo reports 9% revenue growth in 2017
Virgin Atlantic Cargo saw volumes reach a five-year high in 2017 and revenues rising 9% to £199.6 million, driven by strong growth in pharmaceutical and e-commerce shipments. The airline carried 230.5 million kilos last year – up 6% on 2016 – thanks to particularly strong westbound business to the U.S. Virgin Atlantic’s new daily Heathrow-Seattle services, launched last March, performed above expectations and there were strong, double-digit gains in demand to other … [Read more...] about Virgin Atlantic Cargo reports 9% revenue growth in 2017
Paul Fallon and Tania Wilson named as new Virgin Atlantic Cargo directors
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has named Paul Fallon as director Commercial & Business Development and Tania Wilson as director Operations. The changes follow Dominic Kennedy’s promotion to managing director of Virgin Atlantic Cargo in August. Paul began his career in Virgin’s Commercial team in 2003 and later spent over five years as Head of Business Development before taking the post of director Cargo Operations & Business Development in August … [Read more...] about Paul Fallon and Tania Wilson named as new Virgin Atlantic Cargo directors
Virgin Atlantic Cargo’s new managing director – Dominic Kennedy
This follows changes in the airline’s senior management team that mean David Geer, who was due to take up the post in mid-August, will now assume the role of senior vice President Revenue Management & Digital Distribution at Virgin Atlantic. Phil Maher, executive vice president Operations at Virgin Atlantic, said: “As an airline we are extremely fortunate to have such a big talent pool and one of our biggest challenges is to always find the right opportunities to enable our best … [Read more...] about Virgin Atlantic Cargo’s new managing director – Dominic Kennedy