Friday 18 April 2014

Virgin Atlantic Little Red (operated by Aer Lingus)








Virgin Atlantic Little Red is Virgin Atlantic's UK Domestic Airline. The airline was founded in 2013 and commenced operations on 31 March 2013. All flights are operated by Aer Lingus. There are Airbus A320 4 aircraft from the Aer Lingus fleet operating for this service. The airline have 4 bases at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, London Heathrow, Manchester. The main reason for the setting up of this aircraft was due to the closure of BMI. BMI used to operate UK domestic services to Heathrow which were all codeshared with a VS (Virgin Atlantic) flight number. 


BASE                          AIRCRAFT BASED      OTHER INFO
Aberdeen                            1 Airbus A320                  Operates 3 daily services to London Heathrow
Edinburgh                           1 Airbus A320                  Operates 3 daily services to London Heathrow
London Heathrow               1 Airbus A320                  Operates 3 daily services to Edinburgh
Manchester                         1 Airbus A320                 Operates 4 daily services to London Heathrow



All flights operate to & from Terminal 1 at London Heathrow, Terminal 3 at Manchester and the main terminal building at Aberdeen and Edinburgh.




PICTURES OF LITTLE RED'S AIRCRAFT


                       AIRBUS A320: EI-DEI: Maggie May


                   AIRBUS A320: EI-DEO: Queen of the Cobbles


                    AIRBUS A320: EI-EZV: Tartan Lassie


                   AIRBUS A320: EI-EZW: Rosie Lee







FLEET LIST



AIRBUS A320: EI-DEI (OPERATED & OWNED BY AER LINGUS)
AIRBUS A320: EI-DEO 
(OPERATED & OWNED BY AER LINGUS)
AIRBUS A320: EI-EZV 
(OPERATED & OWNED BY AER LINGUS)
AIRBUS A320: EI-EZW 
(OPERATED & OWNED BY AER LINGUS)

TOTAL: 4 (ALL OPERATED & OWNED BY AER LINGUS)




Whether Little Red will expand its UK Domestic operations to other Cities on the Island is unknown. Possible cities include, Cardiff, Belfast, Glasgow, Newcaslte etc. This partership between Aer Lingus & Virgin Atlantic is contracted for 3 years. 









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